{"id":19374,"date":"2026-02-26T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/whitmer-says-us-canada-bridge-trump-threatened-to-block-will-open\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:22:26","slug":"whitmer-says-us-canada-bridge-trump-threatened-to-block-will-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/whitmer-says-us-canada-bridge-trump-threatened-to-block-will-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitmer says US-Canada bridge Trump threatened to block \u2018will open\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said Wednesday that a bridge between the U.S. and Canada that President Trump previously threatened to block from opening is set to go ahead. &ldquo;For the first time in over a century, a new bridge connecting Michigan to Canada, the Gordie Howe International Bridge&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5755938-michigan-canada-bridge-trump-threat\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said Wednesday that a bridge between the U.S. and Canada that President Trump previously threatened to block from opening is set to go ahead. &ldquo;For the first time in over a century, a new bridge connecting Michigan to Canada, the Gordie Howe International Bridge&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19374","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\/19374","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=19374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}