{"id":8129,"date":"2025-04-09T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hill-democrats-take-aim-at-trumps-global-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:27","slug":"hill-democrats-take-aim-at-trumps-global-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hill-democrats-take-aim-at-trumps-global-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill Democrats take aim at Trump&#8217;s global tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats moved Tuesday to force a congressional votes on President Donald Trump&#8217;s sweeping global tariffs &mdash; putting GOP leaders in a tough spot as the economic ramifications of the move continue to mount.  &ldquo;Republicans can&rsquo;t keep ducking the vote on these taxes,&#8221; said Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks of New York&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/08\/congress\/house-democrats-trump-tariffs-00278664\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats moved Tuesday to force a congressional votes on President Donald Trump&#8217;s sweeping global tariffs &mdash; putting GOP leaders in a tough spot as the economic ramifications of the move continue to mount. &ldquo;Republicans can&rsquo;t keep ducking the vote on these taxes,&#8221; said Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks of New York&#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-8129","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\/8129","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=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}