{"id":6633,"date":"2025-02-26T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-trump-is-taking-a-both-sides-approach-to-his-agenda-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:20:25","slug":"how-trump-is-taking-a-both-sides-approach-to-his-agenda-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-trump-is-taking-a-both-sides-approach-to-his-agenda-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump is taking a \u2018both sides\u2019 approach to his agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is &ldquo;playing both sides&rdquo; in getting his legislative agenda through Congress, according to two people familiar with his conversations about what&#8217;s happening on Capitol Hill &mdash; and he is growing increasingly ambivalent about whether it happens via competing House or Senate approaches. Trump last week appeared to endorse Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s bid for &ldquo;one big&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/25\/congress\/donald-trump-budget-reconciliation-approach-00206106\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is &ldquo;playing both sides&rdquo; in getting his legislative agenda through Congress, according to two people familiar with his conversations about what&#8217;s happening on Capitol Hill &mdash; and he is growing increasingly ambivalent about whether it happens via competing House or Senate approaches. Trump last week appeared to endorse Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s bid [&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-6633","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\/6633","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=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}