{"id":7276,"date":"2025-03-14T14:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-lauds-schumers-guts-in-backing-bill-to-avoid-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:04:35","slug":"trump-lauds-schumers-guts-in-backing-bill-to-avoid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-lauds-schumers-guts-in-backing-bill-to-avoid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lauds Schumer&#8217;s &#8216;guts&#8217; in backing bill to avoid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Friday congratulated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for \u201cdoing the right thing\u201d by backing the Republican-led bill to avert a government shutdown, a choice that&#8217;s put the New York Democrat at odds with many in his party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA non pass would be a Country destroyer, approval will lead us to new heights,&#8221; wrote the president Friday morning on Truth Social. &#8220;Again, really good and smart move by Senator Schumer,\u201d wrote the president on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Took &#8216;guts&#8217; and courage!&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer is facing an onslaught of criticism from his left flank, with some progressive activists now referring to the lawmaker&#8217;s decision to vote for the House GOP-passed, seven-month funding measure as the &#8220;Schumer surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in that social media post, also said he wants to address demand for California wildfire aid in a separate Republican bill encompassing his top policy priorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Friday congratulated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for \u201cdoing the right thing\u201d by backing the Republican-led bill to avert a government shutdown, a choice that&#8217;s put the New York Democrat at odds with many in his party. \u201cA non pass would be a Country destroyer, approval will lead us to new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276","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=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}