{"id":4423,"date":"2025-01-04T00:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/centrists-warn-johnson-not-to-cut-deals-with-conservatives-to-get-the-speakership-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T00:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:20:29","slug":"centrists-warn-johnson-not-to-cut-deals-with-conservatives-to-get-the-speakership-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/centrists-warn-johnson-not-to-cut-deals-with-conservatives-to-get-the-speakership-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Centrists warn Johnson not to cut deals with conservatives to get the speakership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House centrists are warning Speaker Mike Johnson to not cut side deals with conservatives to win the gavel. The verbal red flag comes as Johnson is heading toward a showdown over keeping his speakership, with a vote set to begin shortly after noon. He doesn&rsquo;t appear to have the votes to secure it on the first ballot&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/03\/congress\/centrists-warning-to-johnson-00196365\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House centrists are warning Speaker Mike Johnson to not cut side deals with conservatives to win the gavel. The verbal red flag comes as Johnson is heading toward a showdown over keeping his speakership, with a vote set to begin shortly after noon. He doesn&rsquo;t appear to have the votes to secure it on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}