{"id":42939,"date":"2021-12-06T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42939"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:15:49","slug":"schumer-steps-on-the-gas-to-move-biden-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42939","title":{"rendered":"Schumer steps on the gas to move Biden agenda"},"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 Majority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) is raising the pressure on his own party to get\u00a0President Biden\u2019s spending bill on track to pass the chamber by Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Facing skepticism about the aggressive timeline, Schumer used a letter to his caucus on Monday to double down on his plan to get the social and climate spending bill, which is at the heart of Democrats\u2019 legislative agenda, through a 50-50 Senate in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are barreling toward a self-imposed deadline on the spending bill even as they face a packed year-end schedule that includes a sweeping defense bill, raising the nation&#8217;s debt ceiling and pressure to find a path forward on stalemated voting rights legislation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) is raising&#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-42939","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\/42939","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=42939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42940,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42939\/revisions\/42940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}