{"id":20941,"date":"2026-04-04T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/susan-collins-knocks-funding-cuts-in-white-house-budget-proposal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:22:12","slug":"susan-collins-knocks-funding-cuts-in-white-house-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/susan-collins-knocks-funding-cuts-in-white-house-budget-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Collins knocks funding cuts in White House budget proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Friday knocked proposed eliminations and reductions to domestic program spending in the White House&rsquo;s fiscal 2027 budget, a sign she may not be eager to sign off on President Trump&rsquo;s request. &ldquo;While the Administration proposes a budget, Congress holds the power of the purse,&rdquo; Collins wrote in a&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5815864-collins-criticizes-trump-budget\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Friday knocked proposed eliminations and reductions to domestic program spending in the White House&rsquo;s fiscal 2027 budget, a sign she may not be eager to sign off on President Trump&rsquo;s request. &ldquo;While the Administration proposes a budget, Congress holds the power of the purse,&rdquo; Collins wrote in a&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20941","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\/20941","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=20941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}