{"id":21652,"date":"2026-04-21T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/many-families-are-struggling\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:47:14","slug":"many-families-are-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/many-families-are-struggling\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Many families are struggling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Lisa McClain of Michigan offered a rare acknowledgment from a GOP leader Tuesday that the U.S. economy might not be in tip-top condition. McClain, the Republican Conference chair, said at a news conference that &#8220;even with bigger [tax] refunds, many families are struggling right now, and I get it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a departure from the message President Donald Trump sent at a event in Las Vegas last week, where he said &#8220;everything&#8217;s doing really well&#8221; and played down the impact of higher energy prices since he ordered military strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we also owe it to the American people to be honest about how we got here, to make sure we don&#8217;t ever go back again,&#8221; McClain, the No. 4 party leader added, saying Americans are &#8220;digging out of a hole&#8221; from former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Lisa McClain of Michigan offered a rare acknowledgment from a GOP leader Tuesday that the U.S. economy might not be in tip-top condition. McClain, the Republican Conference chair, said at a news conference that &#8220;even with bigger [tax] refunds, many families are struggling right now, and I get it.&#8221; That&#8217;s a departure from the [&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-21652","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\/21652","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=21652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}