{"id":42795,"date":"2021-12-02T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42795"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:33:05","slug":"gop-fears-boomerang-as-threat-of-government-shutdown-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42795","title":{"rendered":"GOP fears boomerang as threat of government shutdown grows"},"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 prospect of a government shutdown grew on Wednesday as a small group of conservative Republicans demanded a vote to defund President Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in exchange for letting a stopgap funding measure pass by Friday\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans fear that Senate conservatives led by Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) will hold up the government funding deal for days in a maneuver that could boomerang on their party \u2014 just as a similar strategy to use a government funding measure as leverage to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act blew up in their faces eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republican senators are privately arguing that forcing a government shutdown would give Democrats a political lifeline at a time when Biden\u2019s approval rating is hovering just above 40 percent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of a government shutdown&#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-42795","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\/42795","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=42795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42796,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42795\/revisions\/42796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}