{"id":23299,"date":"2026-05-27T03:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/members-of-congress-won-a-battle-to-increase-their-pay-the-war-will-go-on-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:22:12","slug":"members-of-congress-won-a-battle-to-increase-their-pay-the-war-will-go-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/members-of-congress-won-a-battle-to-increase-their-pay-the-war-will-go-on-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of Congress won a battle to increase their pay. The war will go on."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers continue to seek to block cost-of-living adjustments even after a federal judge ruled the practice unconstitutional&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/26\/congress-member-pay-ruling-00934248\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers continue to seek to block cost-of-living adjustments even after a federal judge ruled the practice unconstitutional&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23299","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\/23299","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=23299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}