{"id":7676,"date":"2025-03-26T06:23:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doge-efforts-should-be-counted-alongside-megabills-cost-cutting-thune-says-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T06:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:23:02","slug":"doge-efforts-should-be-counted-alongside-megabills-cost-cutting-thune-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doge-efforts-should-be-counted-alongside-megabills-cost-cutting-thune-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE efforts should be counted alongside megabill\u2019s cost-cutting, Thune says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he plans to use the cuts undertaken by Elon Musk&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency initiative as he tries to get Republican fiscal hawks on board with a budget blueprint paving the way for a massive party-line tax, border and energy bill&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/24\/congress\/john-thune-doge-cuts-reconciliation-00249909\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he plans to use the cuts undertaken by Elon Musk&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency initiative as he tries to get Republican fiscal hawks on board with a budget blueprint paving the way for a massive party-line tax, border and energy bill&#8230;Read More<\/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-7676","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\/7676","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=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}