{"id":6699,"date":"2025-02-28T02:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-advances-linda-mcmahons-nomination-to-lead-education-department-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:20:41","slug":"senate-advances-linda-mcmahons-nomination-to-lead-education-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-advances-linda-mcmahons-nomination-to-lead-education-department-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate advances Linda McMahon&#8217;s nomination to lead Education Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education secretary nominee Linda McMahon is one step closer to being confirmed after her nomination cleared a key procedural vote Thursday. The full Senate advanced McMahon&rsquo;s nomination in a 51-47 vote, setting up the nominee for a final confirmation vote on Monday. The vote was on party lines with no Democrats joining Republicans in moving the nomination&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/27\/congress\/senate-advances-linda-mcmahons-nomination-to-lead-education-department-00206493\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education secretary nominee Linda McMahon is one step closer to being confirmed after her nomination cleared a key procedural vote Thursday. The full Senate advanced McMahon&rsquo;s nomination in a 51-47 vote, setting up the nominee for a final confirmation vote on Monday. The vote was on party lines with no Democrats joining Republicans in moving [&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-6699","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\/6699","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=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}