{"id":6696,"date":"2025-02-28T02:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-and-gop-leaders-discuss-using-tariffs-to-pay-for-agenda-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:20:43","slug":"trump-and-gop-leaders-discuss-using-tariffs-to-pay-for-agenda-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-and-gop-leaders-discuss-using-tariffs-to-pay-for-agenda-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and GOP leaders discuss using tariffs to pay for agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP leaders and President Donald Trump are strategizing over how to incorporate revenue from new tariffs in their massive party-line domestic policy bill, with the goal of arguing the multitrillion-dollar legislation doesn&rsquo;t add to the national debt. Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other senior Republicans discussed the topic during their White House meeting Wednesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/27\/congress\/trump-tariffs-gop-agenda-budget-00206556\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP leaders and President Donald Trump are strategizing over how to incorporate revenue from new tariffs in their massive party-line domestic policy bill, with the goal of arguing the multitrillion-dollar legislation doesn&rsquo;t add to the national debt. Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other senior Republicans discussed the topic during their White [&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-6696","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\/6696","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=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}