{"id":147721,"date":"2018-01-21T01:41:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T06:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147721"},"modified":"2018-01-21T01:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T06:41:40","slug":"democrats-gop-exchange-charges-of-blame-for-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/21\/democrats-gop-exchange-charges-of-blame-for-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, GOP exchange charges of blame for shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_147722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147722\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-US_Capitol_west_side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147722\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-US_Capitol_west_side.jpg\" alt=\"US Capitol, west side (Photo By Martin Falbisoner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-US_Capitol_west_side.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-US_Capitol_west_side-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Capitol, west side (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=28359031\">Photo By Martin Falbisoner &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Feuding Democrats and Republicans in Congress are trying to dodge blame for a paralyzing standoff over immigration and showing few signs of progress on negotiations needed to end a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The finger-pointing played out in both the House and Senate, where lawmakers were eager to show voters they were actively working for a solution &#8212; or at least actively making the case the other party was at fault. The scene highlighted political stakes for both parties in an election-year shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats refused to provide votes needed to reopen government until they strike a deal with President Donald Trump protecting young immigrants from deportation, providing disaster relief and boosting spending for opioid treatment and other domestic programs.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate planned a vote by early Monday on a spending extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Feuding Democrats and Republicans in Congress are trying to dodge blame for a paralyzing standoff over immigration and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":147722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[10022,418,110,10931,3251,5191],"class_list":["post-147721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-democrats","tag-house","tag-immigration-2","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-shutdown","mauthors-alan-fram","mauthors-andrew-taylor","mauthors-zeke-miller","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147721","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=147721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}