{"id":19488,"date":"2026-03-01T22:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-rushes-to-get-in-the-loop-as-critics-denounce-iran-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:21:24","slug":"congress-rushes-to-get-in-the-loop-as-critics-denounce-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-rushes-to-get-in-the-loop-as-critics-denounce-iran-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress rushes to get in the loop as critics denounce Iran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts are underway to set up member briefings next week, but Democrats want the Trump administration to go further&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/28\/iran-strikes-congress-lawmakers-trump-00805615\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts are underway to set up member briefings next week, but Democrats want the Trump administration to go further&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19488","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\/19488","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=19488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}