{"id":6802,"date":"2025-03-03T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-shutdown-blame-game-rages-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:21:15","slug":"capitol-agenda-shutdown-blame-game-rages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-shutdown-blame-game-rages-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Shutdown blame game rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shutdown blame game is in full swing on Capitol Hill &mdash; a tried-and-true negative sign for stalled government funding talks. State of play: GOP leaders won&rsquo;t put language in their funding bills to stop President Donald Trump and Elon Musk from clawing back money Congress previously approved &mdash; something Democrats have been demanding in exchange for backing a spending deal&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/27\/congress\/shutdown-johnson-spending-musk-00206398\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shutdown blame game is in full swing on Capitol Hill &mdash; a tried-and-true negative sign for stalled government funding talks. State of play: GOP leaders won&rsquo;t put language in their funding bills to stop President Donald Trump and Elon Musk from clawing back money Congress previously approved &mdash; something Democrats have been demanding in [&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-6802","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\/6802","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=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}