{"id":8828,"date":"2025-05-05T03:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-the-megabill-has-mega-issues-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T03:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:24:23","slug":"capitol-agenda-the-megabill-has-mega-issues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-the-megabill-has-mega-issues-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: The megabill has mega issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans&rsquo; drive toward the &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; is starting to hit some big potholes. As lawmakers get into gear on extending President Donald Trump&rsquo;s tax cuts, cracks are deepening on critical issues, including Medicaid, food aid and even lower-profile issues like transportation funding. Lawmakers are also getting impatient for more details about the plans from leaders&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/30\/congress\/gop-megabill-trump-agenda-medicaid-snap-00317700\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans&rsquo; drive toward the &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; is starting to hit some big potholes. As lawmakers get into gear on extending President Donald Trump&rsquo;s tax cuts, cracks are deepening on critical issues, including Medicaid, food aid and even lower-profile issues like transportation funding. Lawmakers are also getting impatient for more details about the plans from [&hellip;]<\/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-8828","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\/8828","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=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}