{"id":5564,"date":"2025-01-31T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-caught-off-guard-by-trump-dei-comments-after-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:21:00","slug":"gop-senators-caught-off-guard-by-trump-dei-comments-after-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-caught-off-guard-by-trump-dei-comments-after-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators caught off guard by Trump DEI comments after plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are shying away from backing President Trump&rsquo;s recent comments suggesting that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) could have been a factor in the recent midair collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Some were caught off guard on Thursday as they fielded questions from reporters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5117175-gop-senators-trump-dei-comments-plane-crash\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are shying away from backing President Trump&rsquo;s recent comments suggesting that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) could have been a factor in the recent midair collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Some were caught off guard on Thursday as they fielded questions from reporters&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5564","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\/5564","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=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}