{"id":6635,"date":"2025-02-26T07:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-latest-budget-nominee-avows-funding-freeze-pledges-to-follow-vought-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T07:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:20:23","slug":"trumps-latest-budget-nominee-avows-funding-freeze-pledges-to-follow-vought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-latest-budget-nominee-avows-funding-freeze-pledges-to-follow-vought-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s latest budget nominee avows funding freeze, pledges to follow Vought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate began its public vetting on Tuesday of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick for the No. 2 post at the White House budget office, a position key to carrying out the president&rsquo;s funding freeze. Dan Bishop, a former congressmember from North Carolina, testified before senators in his first confirmation hearing to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/25\/congress\/trumps-latest-budget-nominee-avows-funding-freeze-pledges-to-follow-vought-00205991\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate began its public vetting on Tuesday of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick for the No. 2 post at the White House budget office, a position key to carrying out the president&rsquo;s funding freeze. Dan Bishop, a former congressmember from North Carolina, testified before senators in his first confirmation hearing to be deputy director of [&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-6635","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\/6635","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=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}