{"id":22708,"date":"2026-05-14T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senators-discuss-tweaks-to-1b-request\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:02:18","slug":"senators-discuss-tweaks-to-1b-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senators-discuss-tweaks-to-1b-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators discuss tweaks to $1B request"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Republicans are discussing possible changes to a $1 billion line item in the pending reconciliation bill for Secret Service security funding, which can be used for parts of President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom, according to five people granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions come as the GOP prepares to argue to the chamber&#8217;s parliamentarian that security funding complies with the rules governing the party-line budget reconciliation process. With a ruling at least several days away, senators aren&#8217;t close to making a decision about tweaking the language, which has sparked days of controversy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are discussing possible changes to a $1 billion line item in the pending reconciliation bill for Secret Service security funding, which can be used for parts of President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom, according to five people granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. The discussions come as the GOP prepares to argue [&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-22708","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\/22708","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=22708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}