{"id":9666,"date":"2025-05-26T16:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thomas-massie-unloads-on-fellow-conservatives-as-megabill-negotiations-continue-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:21:22","slug":"thomas-massie-unloads-on-fellow-conservatives-as-megabill-negotiations-continue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thomas-massie-unloads-on-fellow-conservatives-as-megabill-negotiations-continue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Massie unloads on fellow conservatives as megabill negotiations continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP leaders and the White House are pushing for a final passage vote today on a roughly 1,100-page bill that hasn&rsquo;t even been fully written &mdash; and one Republican lawmaker is taking notice in a very public way. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, fresh from being called out by President Donald Trump the day before as a &ldquo;grandstander&rdquo; who doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;understand government,&rdquo; is using his social media platform to call attention to the path down which Republicans are headed&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/21\/congress\/thomas-massie-lets-loose-00363138\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP leaders and the White House are pushing for a final passage vote today on a roughly 1,100-page bill that hasn&rsquo;t even been fully written &mdash; and one Republican lawmaker is taking notice in a very public way. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, fresh from being called out by President Donald Trump the day [&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-9666","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\/9666","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=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}