{"id":5893,"date":"2025-02-08T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/leaders-squabble-appropriators-stoic-as-shutdown-deadline-approaches-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:20:24","slug":"leaders-squabble-appropriators-stoic-as-shutdown-deadline-approaches-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/leaders-squabble-appropriators-stoic-as-shutdown-deadline-approaches-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders squabble, appropriators stoic as shutdown deadline approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five weeks away from a government funding deadline, tensions are spiking among lawmakers and shutdown fears are rising. Top-level relations soured Friday, with Speaker Mike Johnson accusing Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of &ldquo;trying to set up some sort of a government shutdown&rdquo; and saying Democrats were &ldquo;unresponsive.&rdquo; Jeffries then shot back&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/07\/congress\/shutdown-vibe-check-00203185\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five weeks away from a government funding deadline, tensions are spiking among lawmakers and shutdown fears are rising. Top-level relations soured Friday, with Speaker Mike Johnson accusing Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of &ldquo;trying to set up some sort of a government shutdown&rdquo; and saying Democrats were &ldquo;unresponsive.&rdquo; Jeffries then shot back&#8230;Read More<\/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-5893","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\/5893","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=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}