{"id":18960,"date":"2026-02-13T04:22:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/utah-sen-john-curtis-is-sinking-jeremy-carls-nomination-for-a-state-department-post\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:22:04","slug":"utah-sen-john-curtis-is-sinking-jeremy-carls-nomination-for-a-state-department-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/utah-sen-john-curtis-is-sinking-jeremy-carls-nomination-for-a-state-department-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Sen. John Curtis is sinking Jeremy Carl&#8217;s nomination for a State Department post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Sen. John Curtis will vote against Jeremy Carl&#8217;s nomination for a top post at the State Department &mdash; dealing a crippling blow to the Trump nominee&#8217;s chances of ascending to the job of assistant secretary of state for International Organizations. &#8220;After reviewing his record and participating in today&rsquo;s hearing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/12\/congress\/carl-hearing-00778566\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Sen. John Curtis will vote against Jeremy Carl&#8217;s nomination for a top post at the State Department &mdash; dealing a crippling blow to the Trump nominee&#8217;s chances of ascending to the job of assistant secretary of state for International Organizations. &#8220;After reviewing his record and participating in today&rsquo;s hearing&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960","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=18960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}