{"id":2309,"date":"2024-11-12T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/congress-nears-short-term-spending-deal-to-avoid-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:20:21","slug":"congress-nears-short-term-spending-deal-to-avoid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-nears-short-term-spending-deal-to-avoid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress nears short-term spending deal to avoid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional leaders are closing in on a deal to avoid a potential government shutdown on Oct. 1, even as Speaker Mike Johnson holds off on publicly blessing the plan. The forthcoming bill, known as a continuing resolution, is expected to fund the government until mid-December and will not include Republicans&rsquo; proposal to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/09\/20\/congress\/spending-deal-update-00180266\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional leaders are closing in on a deal to avoid a potential government shutdown on Oct. 1, even as Speaker Mike Johnson holds off on publicly blessing the plan. The forthcoming bill, known as a continuing resolution, is expected to fund the government until mid-December and will not include Republicans&rsquo; proposal to require proof of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}