{"id":146917,"date":"2018-01-17T02:13:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=146917"},"modified":"2018-01-17T02:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:13:24","slug":"conservatives-balk-at-gop-plan-to-avert-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/17\/conservatives-balk-at-gop-plan-to-avert-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives balk at GOP plan to avert government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141056\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mark-Meadows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141056\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mark-Meadows.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Rep. Mark Meadows  (Photo by US Government - http:\/\/meadows.house.gov\/sites\/meadows.house.gov\/files\/wysiwyg_uploaded\/Official%20Photo.jpg, Public Domain)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mark-Meadows.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mark-Meadows-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mark-Meadows-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mark-Meadows-681x1024.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Rep. Mark Meadows (Photo by US Government &#8211; http:\/\/meadows.house.gov\/sites\/meadows.house.gov\/files\/wysiwyg_uploaded\/Official%20Photo.jpg, Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Hard-line conservatives are threatening to scuttle Republican leaders&#8217; plans to prevent a weekend government shutdown, saying GOP leaders now lack the votes to push their proposal through the House.<\/p>\n<p>The setback comes as a deal between President Donald Trump and Congress to protect young immigrants from deportation also remains distant.<\/p>\n<p>Republican leaders are racing against a Friday deadline for pushing a short-term spending bill through Congress. If they fail, federal agencies will start shutting their doors over the weekend \u2014 an election-year debacle that GOP leaders and many Democrats are eager to avoid for fear of alienating voters.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, the leader of the Freedom Caucus, says its members want added money for the military in the short-term spending bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Hard-line conservatives are threatening to scuttle Republican leaders&#8217; plans to prevent a weekend government shutdown, saying GOP leaders &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[1683,43656,31721,43657],"class_list":["post-146917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-conservatives","tag-gop-plan","tag-government-shutdown","tag-north-carolina-rep-mark-meadows","mauthors-alan-fram-and-andrew-taylor","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}