{"id":20539,"date":"2026-03-25T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/arrington-fraud-cuts-for-war-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:31:56","slug":"arrington-fraud-cuts-for-war-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/arrington-fraud-cuts-for-war-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrington: Fraud cuts for war funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington is making clear he will push for the \u201cfraud prevention\u201d spending cuts he wants across state and social safety net programs in order to pay for any Iran war funding in a second GOP reconciliation bill. <\/p>\n<p>The Texas Republican is meeting soon this afternoon with Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in Graham\u2019s office to discuss plans. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington is making clear he will push for the \u201cfraud prevention\u201d spending cuts he wants across state and social safety net programs in order to pay for any Iran war funding in a second GOP reconciliation bill. The Texas Republican is meeting soon this afternoon with Senate Budget Committee Chair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539","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=20539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}