{"id":6199,"date":"2025-02-16T05:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-johnsons-budget-dare-rfk-jr-confirmation-vote-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T05:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:21:57","slug":"capitol-agenda-johnsons-budget-dare-rfk-jr-confirmation-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-johnsons-budget-dare-rfk-jr-confirmation-vote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Johnson&#8217;s budget dare, RFK Jr. confirmation vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is daring conservatives to sink his budget resolution, setting up a make-or-break moment in the House Budget Committee later today. The speaker emerged from hours of talks Wednesday with two hard-liner holdouts &mdash; Reps. Chip Roy and Ralph Norman, both House Freedom Caucus members who also serve on the Budget Committee &mdash; saying he would not change his budget blueprint to meet their demands for deeper spending cuts and other adjustments&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/13\/congress\/what-were-watching-00203985\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is daring conservatives to sink his budget resolution, setting up a make-or-break moment in the House Budget Committee later today. The speaker emerged from hours of talks Wednesday with two hard-liner holdouts &mdash; Reps. Chip Roy and Ralph Norman, both House Freedom Caucus members who also serve on the Budget Committee &mdash; [&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-6199","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\/6199","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=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}