{"id":279874,"date":"2025-11-09T21:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=279874"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:37:14","slug":"lankford-democrats-are-using-suffering-people-as-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=279874","title":{"rendered":"Lankford: Democrats Are Using Suffering People as &#8216;Leverage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said that Democrats were using the suffering of Americans for &#8220;leverage&#8221; in the government shutdown.<br \/>\nThe post Lankford: Democrats Are Using Suffering People as \u2018Leverage\u2019 appeared first on Breitbart&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2025\/11\/09\/lankford-democrats-are-using-suffering-people-as-leverage\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Breitbart News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said that Democrats were using the suffering of Americans for &#8220;leverage&#8221; in the government shutdown. The post Lankford: Democrats Are Using Suffering People as \u2018Leverage\u2019 appeared first on Breitbart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279875,"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":[17865],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279874"}],"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=279874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279874"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=279874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}