{"id":9252,"date":"2025-05-15T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-inside-the-megabill-asks-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:22:03","slug":"capitol-agenda-inside-the-megabill-asks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-inside-the-megabill-asks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Inside the megabill asks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to negotiate with competing factions of his conference as the clock ticks to advance President Donald Trump&rsquo;s agenda through the House next week. Here&rsquo;s a sampling of what each group is gunning for: THE SALT-IES: The so-called SALT Republicans are at an impasse with GOP leadership over the state-and-local-tax deduction&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/15\/congress\/johnson-trump-salt-tax-megabill-ira-medicaid-00350946\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to negotiate with competing factions of his conference as the clock ticks to advance President Donald Trump&rsquo;s agenda through the House next week. Here&rsquo;s a sampling of what each group is gunning for: THE SALT-IES: The so-called SALT Republicans are at an impasse with GOP leadership over the state-and-local-tax deduction&#8230;Read [&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-9252","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\/9252","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=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}