{"id":5947,"date":"2025-02-09T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schiff-calls-for-firefighter-exemption-from-federal-hiring-freeze\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T13:21:07","slug":"schiff-calls-for-firefighter-exemption-from-federal-hiring-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schiff-calls-for-firefighter-exemption-from-federal-hiring-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Schiff calls for firefighter exemption from federal hiring freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday urged the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to exempt federal seasonal firefighters from President Trump&rsquo;s federal hiring freeze. In a letter to both departments, he noted that the move has stalled the onboarding of thousands of seasonal firefighters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5134571-schiff-calls-for-firefighter-exemption-from-federal-hiring-freeze\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday urged the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to exempt federal seasonal firefighters from President Trump&rsquo;s federal hiring freeze. In a letter to both departments, he noted that the move has stalled the onboarding of thousands of seasonal firefighters&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5947","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\/5947","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=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}