{"id":9496,"date":"2025-05-21T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-sprinting-toward-a-megabill-vote-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:21:10","slug":"capitol-agenda-sprinting-toward-a-megabill-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-sprinting-toward-a-megabill-vote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Sprinting toward a megabill vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pieces could finally be falling into place for Speaker Mike Johnson to pass his &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; as soon as Wednesday. Johnson and a group of blue-state Republicans struck a tentative deal late Tuesday to boost the cap on state-and-local-tax deductions to $40,000, according to three Republicans with direct knowledge &mdash; a huge breakthrough in the negotiations&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/21\/congress\/johnson-republican-megabill-salt-tax-medicaid-00362030\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pieces could finally be falling into place for Speaker Mike Johnson to pass his &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; as soon as Wednesday. Johnson and a group of blue-state Republicans struck a tentative deal late Tuesday to boost the cap on state-and-local-tax deductions to $40,000, according to three Republicans with direct knowledge &mdash; a huge breakthrough [&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-9496","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\/9496","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=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}