{"id":7931,"date":"2025-04-03T03:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senatorsays-he-wont-apologize-after-telling-fired-hhs-employee-he-probably-deserved-it\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T03:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:22:01","slug":"gop-senatorsays-he-wont-apologize-after-telling-fired-hhs-employee-he-probably-deserved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senatorsays-he-wont-apologize-after-telling-fired-hhs-employee-he-probably-deserved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senatorsays he &#8216;won&#8217;t apologize&#8217; after telling fired HHS employee he &#8216;probably deserved it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Wednesday said he &ldquo;won&rsquo;t apologize&rdquo; for telling a fired Health and Human Services (HHS) employee that he &ldquo;probably deserved it,&rdquo; after video footage of the exchange was widely circulated on social media.   The viral video showed former HHS employee Mack Schroeder approaching Banks in a Senate office building on&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5229211-senator-jim-banks-wont-apologize-fired-hhs-employee\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Wednesday said he &ldquo;won&rsquo;t apologize&rdquo; for telling a fired Health and Human Services (HHS) employee that he &ldquo;probably deserved it,&rdquo; after video footage of the exchange was widely circulated on social media. The viral video showed former HHS employee Mack Schroeder approaching Banks in a Senate office building on&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7931","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\/7931","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=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}