{"id":5865,"date":"2025-02-07T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-removes-democratic-fec-commissioner-effective-immediately\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:20:27","slug":"trump-removes-democratic-fec-commissioner-effective-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-removes-democratic-fec-commissioner-effective-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump removes Democratic FEC commissioner &#8216;effective immediately\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump dismissed Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub from service on Friday following in his series of firings from various government agencies.  &ldquo;Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner &amp; Chair of @FEC. There&rsquo;s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn&rsquo;t it,&rdquo; Weintraub wrote in a Thursday post&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5132004-trump-removes-democratic-fec-commissioner-effective-immediately\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump dismissed Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub from service on Friday following in his series of firings from various government agencies. &ldquo;Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner &amp; Chair of @FEC. There&rsquo;s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn&rsquo;t it,&rdquo; Weintraub wrote in a Thursday post&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5865","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\/5865","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=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}