{"id":298730,"date":"2026-07-14T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=298730"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:37:20","slug":"gops-congressional-mess-just-got-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=298730","title":{"rendered":"GOP&#8217;s Congressional Mess Just Got Even Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Congress is facing an uphill struggle to meet its obligations prior to the midterm elections. As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and Donald Trump&#8217;s closest ally in an effort to massively increase defense spending, the late Lindsey Graham was poised to be a key player&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/07\/14\/gops_congressional_mess_just_got_even_worse_705079.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Congress is facing an uphill struggle to meet its obligations prior to the midterm elections. As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and Donald Trump&#8217;s closest ally in an effort to massively increase defense spending, the late Lindsey Graham was poised to be a key player&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298731,"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":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298730"}],"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=298730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298730"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=298730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}