{"id":8738,"date":"2025-05-02T07:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-inside-trumps-hesitation-on-medicaid-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:21:35","slug":"capitol-agenda-inside-trumps-hesitation-on-medicaid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-inside-trumps-hesitation-on-medicaid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Inside Trump\u2019s hesitation on Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make no mistake: Medicaid is at the center of the GOP&rsquo;s challenges as they try to assemble their &ldquo;big, beautiful&rdquo; bill. And the problems start at the very top. President Donald Trump is deeply skeptical of the emerging House Republican plan to make deep cuts to Medicaid to pay for the GOP&rsquo;s megabill&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/01\/congress\/trump-medicaid-johnson-agenda-house-republicans-00320580\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make no mistake: Medicaid is at the center of the GOP&rsquo;s challenges as they try to assemble their &ldquo;big, beautiful&rdquo; bill. And the problems start at the very top. President Donald Trump is deeply skeptical of the emerging House Republican plan to make deep cuts to Medicaid to pay for the GOP&rsquo;s megabill&#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-8738","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\/8738","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=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}