{"id":6634,"date":"2025-02-26T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-speaks-with-several-holdouts-ahead-of-key-budget-vote-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:20:24","slug":"trump-speaks-with-several-holdouts-ahead-of-key-budget-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-speaks-with-several-holdouts-ahead-of-key-budget-vote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump speaks with several holdouts ahead of key budget vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is speaking with some House Republican holdouts ahead of an imperiled vote on the GOP&rsquo;s budget Tuesday evening. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Trump had been &ldquo;tremendously&rdquo; helpful ahead of the critical vote. Speaker Mike Johnson likewise told reporters several House Republicans had called the president as they weighed their votes&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/25\/congress\/trump-is-talking-to-gop-holdouts-ahead-of-house-budget-vote-00206031\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is speaking with some House Republican holdouts ahead of an imperiled vote on the GOP&rsquo;s budget Tuesday evening. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Trump had been &ldquo;tremendously&rdquo; helpful ahead of the critical vote. Speaker Mike Johnson likewise told reporters several House Republicans had called the president as they weighed their votes&#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-6634","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\/6634","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=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}