{"id":278643,"date":"2025-10-24T08:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=278643"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:37:21","slug":"democrats-blocking-federal-paychecks-during-shutdown-splinter-when-asked-if-theyre-cashing-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=278643","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Blocking Federal Paychecks During Shutdown Splinter When Asked If They\u2019re Cashing Their Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retiring Democratic Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith said she will receive her government salary during the shutdown \u2014 only for her office to walk it back. Smith told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday that she would not forgo her paycheck because she continues to work in the Capitol during a lapse in government funding&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/10\/23\/democratic-senators-government-shutdown-paycheck-tina-smith\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: The Daily Caller<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retiring Democratic Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith said she will receive her government salary during the shutdown \u2014 only for her office to walk it back. Smith told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday that she would not forgo her paycheck because she continues to work in the Capitol during a lapse in government funding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17869],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278643"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=278643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}