{"id":38751,"date":"2021-08-13T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T18:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38751"},"modified":"2021-08-13T21:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T04:53:12","slug":"a-tale-of-two-chambers-trumps-power-holds-in-house-wanes-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38751","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two chambers: Trump&#8217;s power holds in House, wanes in Senate"},"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\">The infrastructure debate dominating Capitol Hill this summer is highlighting the sharp contrast between the chambers when it comes to the influence of former\u00a0President Trump\u00a0over the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(Ky.), broke with Trump this week to support a massive infrastructure package, providing\u00a0President Biden\u00a0with a big win and reflecting the diminishing hold his predecessor has on the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>But the story is likely to be much different in the House, where Trump retains a muscular grip and GOP leaders have deemed his support vital to both the party\u2019s prospects of winning back the chamber, and their individual aspirations for rising in the leadership ranks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The infrastructure debate dominating Capitol Hill&#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-38751","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\/38751","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=38751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38752,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38751\/revisions\/38752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}