{"id":16785,"date":"2025-03-15T15:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16785"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:06:35","slug":"trump-lauds-schumers-guts-in-backing-bill-to-avoid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16785","title":{"rendered":"Trump lauds Schumer&#8217;s &#8216;guts&#8217; in backing bill to avoid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Senate minority leader, both privately to his caucus Thursday and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/13\/congress\/chuck-schumer-shutdown-vote-00230000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in a floor speech shortly after<\/a>, said he would vote to advance a GOP-written stopgap to fund the government through September. He said Republicans\u2019 spending bill is \u201cvery bad.\u201d But he argued the \u201cpotential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse\u201d and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/13\/senate-democrats-vote-funding-bill-elon-musk-00229284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">would empower President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to further gut federal agencies<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/14\/congress\/trump-congratulates-schumer-00230577\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/14\/congress\/trump-congratulates-schumer-00230577<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Senate minority leader, both privately to his caucus Thursday and in a floor speech shortly after, said he would vote to advance a GOP-written stopgap to fund the government through September. He said Republicans\u2019 spending bill is \u201cvery bad.\u201d But he argued the \u201cpotential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse\u201d and would empower President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to further gut federal agencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/14\/congress\/trump-congratulates-schumer-00230577<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[450,542,221,1193,906,1103,279,170],"class_list":["post-16785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-spending","tag-legislation","tag-shutdowns","tag-spending","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16787,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785\/revisions\/16787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}