{"id":22950,"date":"2026-05-18T23:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-and-democrats-are-in-dealmaking-mode-as-time-runs-out-for-legislative-action\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:21:17","slug":"republicans-and-democrats-are-in-dealmaking-mode-as-time-runs-out-for-legislative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-and-democrats-are-in-dealmaking-mode-as-time-runs-out-for-legislative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans and Democrats are in dealmaking mode as time runs out for legislative action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers say they&rsquo;re ready to put partisan bickering aside and move some bipartisan bills before midterm campaigning gets into full swing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/congress-bipartisan-bills-midterms-00925385\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers say they&rsquo;re ready to put partisan bickering aside and move some bipartisan bills before midterm campaigning gets into full swing&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22950","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\/22950","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=22950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}