{"id":7277,"date":"2025-03-14T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pelosi-slams-false-choice-on-shutdown-indirectly-criticizing-schumer\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:04:38","slug":"pelosi-slams-false-choice-on-shutdown-indirectly-criticizing-schumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pelosi-slams-false-choice-on-shutdown-indirectly-criticizing-schumer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi slams &#8216;false choice&#8217; on shutdown, indirectly criticizing Schumer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered some sidelong criticism of her colleagues in the other chamber Friday after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would vote to allow passage of a GOP spending patch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America has experienced a Trump shutdown before \u2014 but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way. Listen to the women, For The People,&#8221; she said in a statement, endorsing an alternative bill from top Democratic appropriators Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). <\/p>\n<p>Pelosi also said she backed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries&#8217; decision to oppose the bill. All House Democrats but one voted against it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered some sidelong criticism of her colleagues in the other chamber Friday after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would vote to allow passage of a GOP spending patch. &#8220;America has experienced a Trump shutdown before \u2014 but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into [&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-7277","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\/7277","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=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}