{"id":37064,"date":"2021-06-29T17:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37064"},"modified":"2021-06-29T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:32:30","slug":"mcconnell-has-tough-choices-to-make-on-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37064","title":{"rendered":"McConnell has tough choices to make on deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) is facing conflicting political pressures as he hits the brakes on a bipartisan infrastructure deal that could give\u00a0President Biden\u00a0a major legislative accomplishment heading into the 2022 midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, who blasted Democratic congressional leaders Monday for tying a reconciliation package opposed by his party to the bipartisan deal, has no desire to give Biden a big victory the president\u2019s party can use as a campaign weapon in the midterms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) is facing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37065,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064\/revisions\/37065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}