{"id":5899,"date":"2025-02-08T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-says-democrats-unresponsive-ahead-of-shutdown-deadline-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T07:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:20:20","slug":"mike-johnson-says-democrats-unresponsive-ahead-of-shutdown-deadline-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-says-democrats-unresponsive-ahead-of-shutdown-deadline-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson says Democrats &#8216;unresponsive&#8217; ahead of shutdown deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Friday morning that Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries &ldquo;seemed to be trying to set up some sort of a government shutdown.&rdquo; &ldquo;We have been negotiating in good faith, trying to get a top-line number. But so far as I know, they&rsquo;ve been unresponsive the past two days or so,&rdquo; Johnson said&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/07\/congress\/mike-johnson-shutdown-threat-00203080\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Friday morning that Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries &ldquo;seemed to be trying to set up some sort of a government shutdown.&rdquo; &ldquo;We have been negotiating in good faith, trying to get a top-line number. But so far as I know, they&rsquo;ve been unresponsive the past two days or so,&rdquo; Johnson said&#8230;Read [&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-5899","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\/5899","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=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}