{"id":5432,"date":"2025-01-29T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-dig-in-their-heels-on-nominees-amid-spending-freeze-chaos-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:21:14","slug":"democrats-dig-in-their-heels-on-nominees-amid-spending-freeze-chaos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-dig-in-their-heels-on-nominees-amid-spending-freeze-chaos-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats dig in their heels on nominees amid spending freeze chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A batch of Democrats incensed with President Donald Trump&#8217;s latest decision to pause federal spending voted against his otherwise benign nominee for Transportation secretary on Tuesday, the first brick in what some of them promise will be a wall of opposition until funds are uncorked. An OMB memo stipulating that federal agencies should temporarily halt paying out grants and loans as of 5 p.m&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/28\/congress\/democrats-freeze-chaos-00201052\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A batch of Democrats incensed with President Donald Trump&#8217;s latest decision to pause federal spending voted against his otherwise benign nominee for Transportation secretary on Tuesday, the first brick in what some of them promise will be a wall of opposition until funds are uncorked. An OMB memo stipulating that federal agencies should temporarily halt [&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-5432","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\/5432","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=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}