{"id":6709,"date":"2025-02-28T04:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T04:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fight-over-trumps-spending-powers-boosts-shutdown-odds\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T04:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T04:20:37","slug":"fight-over-trumps-spending-powers-boosts-shutdown-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fight-over-trumps-spending-powers-boosts-shutdown-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight over Trump&#8217;s spending powers boosts shutdown odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional negotiators racing to avert a government shutdown next month appear to have hit a wall on the question of whether to limit President Trump&rsquo;s powers to spend&nbsp;the money. On one side of that divide are Democratic appropriators, who are already hammering the White House for refusing to back programs previously funded by Congress &mdash;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/budget\/5168196-trump-spending-powers-shutdown-democrats\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional negotiators racing to avert a government shutdown next month appear to have hit a wall on the question of whether to limit President Trump&rsquo;s powers to spend&nbsp;the money. On one side of that divide are Democratic appropriators, who are already hammering the White House for refusing to back programs previously funded by Congress &mdash;&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","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=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}