{"id":40119,"date":"2021-09-17T08:57:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40119"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T22:57:24","slug":"failed-drug-vote-points-to-bigger-challenges-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40119","title":{"rendered":"Failed drug vote points to bigger challenges for Democrats"},"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 defection of three moderate House Democrats on drug pricing legislation highlights the steep challenge the party faces in pushing their $3.5 trillion package through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>With thin margins in both the House and Senate, there are a range of tough issues that Democratic leaders must navigate, from the overall size of the measure to how to raise the taxes needed to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Any one of those issues has the potential to take the entire package down in a House where Democrats can afford just three defections given unified GOP opposition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defection of three moderate House&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119","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=40119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40120,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119\/revisions\/40120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}