{"id":8704,"date":"2025-05-01T09:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-johnson-meets-with-stefanik-as-tensions-linger\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:21:09","slug":"speaker-johnson-meets-with-stefanik-as-tensions-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-johnson-meets-with-stefanik-as-tensions-linger\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson meets with Stefanik as tensions linger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday, as tensions linger between the two lawmakers after the New York Republican withdrew her nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The gathering &mdash; which Johnson confirmed to Blue Light News &mdash; came one day after the spat between the two Republicans entered the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5276551-speaker-johnson-meets-stefanik-as-tensions-linger\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday, as tensions linger between the two lawmakers after the New York Republican withdrew her nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The gathering &mdash; which Johnson confirmed to Blue Light News &mdash; came one day after the spat between the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8704","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\/8704","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=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}