{"id":7826,"date":"2025-03-31T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-the-gops-3-big-tests-in-april-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:20:49","slug":"capitol-agenda-the-gops-3-big-tests-in-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-the-gops-3-big-tests-in-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: The GOP\u2019s 3 big tests in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are facing a trifecta of major challenges this week on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s legislative agenda, his trade war escalation and the biggest test of the party&rsquo;s political staying power since November. Here&rsquo;s a rundown of what&rsquo;s coming. News on Trump&rsquo;s legislative wish list: Senate Republicans will move as soon as Wednesday to start advancing the budget plan Congress has to approve to enact Trump&rsquo;s tax cuts&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/31\/congress\/what-were-watching-00260044\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are facing a trifecta of major challenges this week on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s legislative agenda, his trade war escalation and the biggest test of the party&rsquo;s political staying power since November. Here&rsquo;s a rundown of what&rsquo;s coming. News on Trump&rsquo;s legislative wish list: Senate Republicans will move as soon as Wednesday to start advancing [&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-7826","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\/7826","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=7826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}