{"id":8952,"date":"2025-05-08T03:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmakers-in-robust-talks-with-white-house-over-9b-cutbacks-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T03:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:20:47","slug":"gop-lawmakers-in-robust-talks-with-white-house-over-9b-cutbacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmakers-in-robust-talks-with-white-house-over-9b-cutbacks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmakers in \u2018robust\u2019 talks with White House over $9B cutbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are privately negotiating with the White House over the makeup of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s forthcoming request to nix $9.3 billion already allocated for the State Department, foreign aid and public broadcasting.  House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters Wednesday night that top Republicans are in &ldquo;robust discussion &mdash; back and forth discussion&rdquo; with the White House about which programs will be targeted under the so-called rescissions request Trump plans to send Congress&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/07\/congress\/gop-lawmakers-in-robust-talks-with-white-house-over-9b-cutbacks-00334675\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are privately negotiating with the White House over the makeup of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s forthcoming request to nix $9.3 billion already allocated for the State Department, foreign aid and public broadcasting. House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters Wednesday night that top Republicans are in &ldquo;robust discussion &mdash; back and forth discussion&rdquo; [&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-8952","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\/8952","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=8952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}