{"id":7847,"date":"2025-03-31T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/chuck-schumer-did-the-right-thing-cut-him-some-slack\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:20:51","slug":"chuck-schumer-did-the-right-thing-cut-him-some-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/chuck-schumer-did-the-right-thing-cut-him-some-slack\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Schumer did the right thing \u2014 cut him some slack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a mistake for Democrats to continue pillorying The minority leader, whose decision to avoid a government shutdown was not just the correct one for the country, but also politically for Democrats.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/congress-blog\/politics\/5221627-democrats-schumer-government-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a mistake for Democrats to continue pillorying The minority leader, whose decision to avoid a government shutdown was not just the correct one for the country, but also politically for Democrats.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847","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=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}