{"id":7952,"date":"2025-04-03T21:50:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-backs-luna-on-proxy-voting-but-says-it-is-johnsons-call\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:50:29","slug":"trump-backs-luna-on-proxy-voting-but-says-it-is-johnsons-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-backs-luna-on-proxy-voting-but-says-it-is-johnsons-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs Luna on proxy voting \u2014 but says it is Johnson\u2019s call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Anna Paulina Luna\u2019s (R-Fla.) resolution to allow proxy voting for expectant mothers in Congress \u2014 but signaled he isn\u2019t interested in going to the mat for the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why it\u2019s controversial,\u201d Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday, according to a pool report.<\/p>\n<p>The support for Luna\u2019s push comes after Trump spoke with the member of Congress on Wednesday. Luna told NewsNation Wednesday that \u201cthe president assured that this would get resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proxy vote fight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/02\/mike-johnson-proxy-voting-gop-agenda-00267900\" target=\"_blank\">has stalled Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s ambitious plan<\/a> to pass the \u201cbig, beautiful\u201d budget bill, after a handful of Republicans joined Democrats to reject Johnson\u2019s moves to block Luna\u2019s proposal. Johnson repeated his opposition on Wednesday, but said there \u201cmay be a path\u201d to get the House unjammed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Thursday that he\u2019s in favor of the resolution. But he stressed that the decision rests with Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to let the speaker make the decision, but I like the idea,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Anna Paulina Luna\u2019s (R-Fla.) resolution to allow proxy voting for expectant mothers in Congress \u2014 but signaled he isn\u2019t interested in going to the mat for the change. \u201cI don\u2019t know why it\u2019s controversial,\u201d Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday, according to a pool report. The support [&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-7952","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\/7952","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=7952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}