{"id":20615,"date":"2026-03-27T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/collins-meets-the-problem-solvers-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:22:12","slug":"collins-meets-the-problem-solvers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/collins-meets-the-problem-solvers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins meets the Problem Solvers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins joined the House Problem Solvers Caucus lunch Thursday to talk about the stalled Homeland Security funding effort and proposals to overhaul federal immigration enforcement activities. &ldquo;I think everyone is pretty frustrated at this point,&rdquo; the Maine Republican said in an interview after the bipartisan meeting&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/26\/congress\/collins-meets-the-problem-solvers-00846378\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins joined the House Problem Solvers Caucus lunch Thursday to talk about the stalled Homeland Security funding effort and proposals to overhaul federal immigration enforcement activities. &ldquo;I think everyone is pretty frustrated at this point,&rdquo; the Maine Republican said in an interview after the bipartisan meeting&#8230;Read More<\/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-20615","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\/20615","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=20615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}