{"id":8045,"date":"2025-04-07T04:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-and-jeffries-appear-together-for-the-first-time-since-funding-blowup-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:20:45","slug":"schumer-and-jeffries-appear-together-for-the-first-time-since-funding-blowup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-and-jeffries-appear-together-for-the-first-time-since-funding-blowup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer and Jeffries appear together for the first time since funding blowup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top two Democratic congressional leaders stressed unity during their first joint appearance since a government funding fight put them on opposing sides and exposed deep rifts within the party. &ldquo;We are standing together in defense of the American people,&rdquo; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/01\/congress\/chuck-schumer-hakeem-jeffries-together-00265274\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top two Democratic congressional leaders stressed unity during their first joint appearance since a government funding fight put them on opposing sides and exposed deep rifts within the party. &ldquo;We are standing together in defense of the American people,&rdquo; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters&#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-8045","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\/8045","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=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}