{"id":19179,"date":"2026-02-20T19:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-are-ignoring-trump-and-holding-out-hope-for-a-second-megabill-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:22:35","slug":"republicans-are-ignoring-trump-and-holding-out-hope-for-a-second-megabill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-are-ignoring-trump-and-holding-out-hope-for-a-second-megabill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are ignoring Trump and holding out hope for a second megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president said Republicans have &ldquo;gotten everything passed that we need,&rdquo; but lawmakers aren&rsquo;t so sure&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-megabill-reconciliation-gop-00789794\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president said Republicans have &ldquo;gotten everything passed that we need,&rdquo; but lawmakers aren&rsquo;t so sure&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19179","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\/19179","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=19179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}