{"id":18404,"date":"2026-01-30T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-shutdown-deal-stalls-over-graham-objection\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:22:23","slug":"senate-shutdown-deal-stalls-over-graham-objection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-shutdown-deal-stalls-over-graham-objection\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate shutdown deal stalls over Graham objection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&rsquo;s race to avert a shutdown hit the skids late Thursday night as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) placed a hold on the government funding package, forcing leaders to punt the vote.&nbsp; Senators had been hoping to vote on the so-called minibus after leaders struck a deal earlier in the day and President Trump endorsed&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5714316-senate-government-funding-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&rsquo;s race to avert a shutdown hit the skids late Thursday night as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) placed a hold on the government funding package, forcing leaders to punt the vote.&nbsp; Senators had been hoping to vote on the so-called minibus after leaders struck a deal earlier in the day and President Trump endorsed&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}