{"id":9374,"date":"2025-05-19T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-megabill-hardball-isnt-over-yet-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:20:26","slug":"capitol-agenda-megabill-hardball-isnt-over-yet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-megabill-hardball-isnt-over-yet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Megabill hardball isn\u2019t over yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP fiscal hawks let their party&rsquo;s tax and spending package advance toward a floor vote. But they&rsquo;re threatening to tank President Donald Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; if they don&rsquo;t see even more spending cuts and conservative policy changes. Catch up: Republican hard-liners who sank the Budget Committee&rsquo;s initial vote on the vehicle for Trump&rsquo;s domestic agenda last Friday allowed the measure to proceed late Sunday after securing promises from GOP leaders that changes would be made before the legislation hits the House floor&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/19\/congress\/megabill-hardliners-trump-johnson-medicaid-00356568\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP fiscal hawks let their party&rsquo;s tax and spending package advance toward a floor vote. But they&rsquo;re threatening to tank President Donald Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; if they don&rsquo;t see even more spending cuts and conservative policy changes. Catch up: Republican hard-liners who sank the Budget Committee&rsquo;s initial vote on the vehicle for Trump&rsquo;s domestic [&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-9374","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\/9374","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=9374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}