{"id":9277,"date":"2025-05-16T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lots-of-talk-little-outward-progress-as-house-gop-closes-in-on-megabill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:22:02","slug":"lots-of-talk-little-outward-progress-as-house-gop-closes-in-on-megabill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lots-of-talk-little-outward-progress-as-house-gop-closes-in-on-megabill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of talk, little outward progress as House GOP closes in on megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is racing to resolve a suite of remaining issues with the GOP megabill just days before he hopes to put it up for a floor vote. Warring factions inside the House Republican Conference huddled with the speaker Thursday, jockeying primarily over what to do about SALT &mdash; the state-and-local-tax deduction&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/15\/congress\/gop-megabill-talks-heat-up-00351931\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is racing to resolve a suite of remaining issues with the GOP megabill just days before he hopes to put it up for a floor vote. Warring factions inside the House Republican Conference huddled with the speaker Thursday, jockeying primarily over what to do about SALT &mdash; the state-and-local-tax deduction&#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-9277","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\/9277","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=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}