{"id":6561,"date":"2025-02-25T05:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T05:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/government-funding-deal-very-close-as-negotiations-hinge-on-trump-power-struggle-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T05:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T05:22:56","slug":"government-funding-deal-very-close-as-negotiations-hinge-on-trump-power-struggle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/government-funding-deal-very-close-as-negotiations-hinge-on-trump-power-struggle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Government funding deal \u2018very close\u2019 as negotiations hinge on Trump power struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fight over curbing President Donald Trump&rsquo;s ability to freeze cash is now the make-or-break dispute as leading lawmakers close in on a deal to avert a government shutdown next month. Top appropriators on both sides of the Capitol reported good progress Monday night toward a bipartisan deal on overall spending totals for the military and non-defense programs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/24\/congress\/government-funding-deal-trump-power-struggle-00205869\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fight over curbing President Donald Trump&rsquo;s ability to freeze cash is now the make-or-break dispute as leading lawmakers close in on a deal to avert a government shutdown next month. Top appropriators on both sides of the Capitol reported good progress Monday night toward a bipartisan deal on overall spending totals for the military [&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-6561","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\/6561","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=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}