{"id":6490,"date":"2025-02-23T03:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T03:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/patel-on-cusp-of-confirmation-to-run-fbi-as-collins-says-shell-oppose-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T03:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T03:20:25","slug":"patel-on-cusp-of-confirmation-to-run-fbi-as-collins-says-shell-oppose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/patel-on-cusp-of-confirmation-to-run-fbi-as-collins-says-shell-oppose-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Patel on cusp of confirmation to run FBI as Collins says she&#8217;ll oppose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel, President Donald Trump&#8217;s controversial nominee to lead the FBI, is on track to be confirmed in a matter of hours to run the federal law enforcement agency &mdash; but at least one Republican will withhold support. The Senate voted 51-47 to end debate on Patel&#8217;s nomination on Thursday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/20\/congress\/kash-patel-fbi-cloture-00205164\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel, President Donald Trump&#8217;s controversial nominee to lead the FBI, is on track to be confirmed in a matter of hours to run the federal law enforcement agency &mdash; but at least one Republican will withhold support. The Senate voted 51-47 to end debate on Patel&#8217;s nomination on Thursday&#8230;Read More<\/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-6490","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\/6490","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=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}