{"id":6402,"date":"2025-02-21T05:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-plays-down-doge-checks-at-cpac-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T05:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:20:39","slug":"johnson-plays-down-doge-checks-at-cpac-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-plays-down-doge-checks-at-cpac-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson plays down DOGE checks at CPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to put the brakes on rising talk from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk about sending checks to American taxpayers with savings from the ongoing cuts from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. &ldquo;Politically, that would be great for us, send everybody a check,&rdquo; Johnson said in an interview at CPAC&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/20\/congress\/mike-johnson-cpac-doge-checks-00205285\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to put the brakes on rising talk from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk about sending checks to American taxpayers with savings from the ongoing cuts from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. &ldquo;Politically, that would be great for us, send everybody a check,&rdquo; Johnson said in an interview at CPAC&#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-6402","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\/6402","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=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}