{"id":20552,"date":"2026-03-25T22:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/arrington-fraud-cuts-for-war-funding-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:20:43","slug":"arrington-fraud-cuts-for-war-funding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/arrington-fraud-cuts-for-war-funding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrington: Fraud cuts for war funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington is making clear he will push for the &ldquo;fraud prevention&rdquo; 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 Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in Graham&rsquo;s office to discuss plans&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/25\/congress\/jodey-arrington-fraud-cuts-iran-war-funding-00845183\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington is making clear he will push for the &ldquo;fraud prevention&rdquo; 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20552","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\/20552","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=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}