{"id":8889,"date":"2025-05-06T06:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-says-house-will-vote-as-quickly-as-possible-on-district-of-columbia-budget-fix-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:20:51","slug":"speaker-says-house-will-vote-as-quickly-as-possible-on-district-of-columbia-budget-fix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-says-house-will-vote-as-quickly-as-possible-on-district-of-columbia-budget-fix-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker says House will vote \u2018as quickly as possible\u2019 on District of Columbia budget fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he still intends to hold a vote House to vote to fix the District of Columbia&rsquo;s $1 billion funding shortfall, after the stopgap government funding bill he spearheaded back in March inadvertently forced the city to confront sudden budget cuts. &ldquo;I talked to the mayor and told her that we would do it as quickly as possible,&rdquo; Johnson told reporters Monday evening&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/05\/congress\/speaker-says-house-will-vote-as-quickly-as-possible-on-district-of-columbia-budget-fix-00330426\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he still intends to hold a vote House to vote to fix the District of Columbia&rsquo;s $1 billion funding shortfall, after the stopgap government funding bill he spearheaded back in March inadvertently forced the city to confront sudden budget cuts. &ldquo;I talked to the mayor and told her that we would [&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-8889","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\/8889","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=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}