{"id":6344,"date":"2025-02-20T08:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/collins-spending-negotiations-not-going-well-ahead-of-march-shutdown-cliff-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T08:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:20:36","slug":"collins-spending-negotiations-not-going-well-ahead-of-march-shutdown-cliff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/collins-spending-negotiations-not-going-well-ahead-of-march-shutdown-cliff-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins: Spending negotiations \u2018not going well\u2019 ahead of March shutdown cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins told reporters Wednesday afternoon that funding negotiations with Democrats &ldquo;are not going well&rdquo; as lawmakers stare down a government shutdown deadline in just over three weeks. It usually takes congressional leaders at least a month to finalizing a dozen annual funding bills after top appropriators strike an initial agreement on overall totals for the military and non-defense programs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/19\/congress\/spending-negotiations-not-going-well-00204943\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins told reporters Wednesday afternoon that funding negotiations with Democrats &ldquo;are not going well&rdquo; as lawmakers stare down a government shutdown deadline in just over three weeks. It usually takes congressional leaders at least a month to finalizing a dozen annual funding bills after top appropriators strike an initial agreement on [&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-6344","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\/6344","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=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}