{"id":18996,"date":"2026-02-14T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-yolo-republicans-lawmakers-with-nothing-to-lose-are-threatening-trumps-grip-on-congress-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:22:09","slug":"meet-the-yolo-republicans-lawmakers-with-nothing-to-lose-are-threatening-trumps-grip-on-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-yolo-republicans-lawmakers-with-nothing-to-lose-are-threatening-trumps-grip-on-congress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the YOLO Republicans: Lawmakers with nothing to lose are threatening Trump\u2019s grip on Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small group of politically insulated members is causing headaches for party leaders and anxiety among their GOP colleagues&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/13\/republican-trump-congress-defections-00780479\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small group of politically insulated members is causing headaches for party leaders and anxiety among their GOP colleagues&#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-18996","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\/18996","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=18996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}