{"id":9036,"date":"2025-05-10T08:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T08:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-did-not-seek-haydens-firing-as-librarian-of-congress-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T08:20:55","slug":"lawmakers-did-not-seek-haydens-firing-as-librarian-of-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-did-not-seek-haydens-firing-as-librarian-of-congress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers did not seek Hayden\u2019s firing as Librarian of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump did not act at the behest of lawmakers overseeing the Library of Congress when he fired its chief, Carla Hayden, three people close to those overseers said. Members on key congressional committees with jurisdiction over the massive library, who questioned Hayden at hearings in recent weeks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/09\/congress\/trump-carla-hayden-firing-congress-00340034\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump did not act at the behest of lawmakers overseeing the Library of Congress when he fired its chief, Carla Hayden, three people close to those overseers said. Members on key congressional committees with jurisdiction over the massive library, who questioned Hayden at hearings in recent weeks&#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-9036","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\/9036","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=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}