{"id":21490,"date":"2026-04-17T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-democrats-blast-vought-for-holding-back-cash-you-dont-have-the-authority-to-impound-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:22:13","slug":"gop-democrats-blast-vought-for-holding-back-cash-you-dont-have-the-authority-to-impound-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-democrats-blast-vought-for-holding-back-cash-you-dont-have-the-authority-to-impound-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP, Democrats blast Vought for holding back cash: &#8216;You don\u2019t have the authority to impound&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told the White House budget director that lawmakers &#8220;are not getting any answers&#8221; as to why hundreds of millions of dollars isn&#8217;t flowing to states for anti-poverty programs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/16\/congress\/vought-slammed-on-impoundment-00877112\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told the White House budget director that lawmakers &#8220;are not getting any answers&#8221; as to why hundreds of millions of dollars isn&#8217;t flowing to states for anti-poverty programs&#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-21490","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\/21490","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=21490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}