{"id":23687,"date":"2026-06-05T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cassidy-tries-to-drive-stake-in-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:22:05","slug":"cassidy-tries-to-drive-stake-in-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cassidy-tries-to-drive-stake-in-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy tries to drive stake in Trump\u2019s anti-weaponization fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican and Democratic senators say that Thursday&rsquo;s vote-a-rama &mdash; &nbsp;a marathon series of votes on amendments to the budget reconciliation package &mdash; is dragging on because Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is trying to perfect language to drive a stake through President Trump&rsquo;s proposed $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5911351-cassidy-amendment-anti-weaponization-fund\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican and Democratic senators say that Thursday&rsquo;s vote-a-rama &mdash; &nbsp;a marathon series of votes on amendments to the budget reconciliation package &mdash; is dragging on because Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is trying to perfect language to drive a stake through President Trump&rsquo;s proposed $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23687","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\/23687","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=23687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}