{"id":18623,"date":"2026-02-04T01:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-just-handed-rfk-jr-billions-more-than-he-asked-for-it-was-a-big-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:46:58","slug":"democrats-just-handed-rfk-jr-billions-more-than-he-asked-for-it-was-a-big-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-just-handed-rfk-jr-billions-more-than-he-asked-for-it-was-a-big-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats just handed RFK Jr. billions more than he asked for. It was a big risk."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Lawmakers rejected huge health cuts President Donald Trump requested. Kennedy\u2019s diverting the funds to pet projects and red states.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers rejected huge health cuts President Donald Trump requested. Kennedy\u2019s diverting the funds to pet projects and red states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623","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=18623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}