{"id":8125,"date":"2025-04-09T13:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-assures-gop-budget-holdouts-on-spending-cuts-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:31","slug":"trump-assures-gop-budget-holdouts-on-spending-cuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-assures-gop-budget-holdouts-on-spending-cuts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump assures GOP budget holdouts on spending cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is projecting confidence about finalizing a GOP budget plan after he and President Donald Trump went to work on a group of Republican holdouts at a White House meeting Tuesday &mdash; but they still haven&#8217;t locked up the votes. &#8220;We had a lot of members whose questions were answered&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/08\/congress\/inside-the-white-house-budget-meeting-00279295\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is projecting confidence about finalizing a GOP budget plan after he and President Donald Trump went to work on a group of Republican holdouts at a White House meeting Tuesday &mdash; but they still haven&#8217;t locked up the votes. &#8220;We had a lot of members whose questions were answered&#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-8125","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\/8125","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=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}