{"id":40437,"date":"2025-05-02T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/democrats-target-vulnerable-republicans-over-plan-to-cut-social-safety-net\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:18:43","slug":"democrats-target-vulnerable-republicans-over-plan-to-cut-social-safety-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/democrats-target-vulnerable-republicans-over-plan-to-cut-social-safety-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats target vulnerable Republicans over plan to cut social safety net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNC to campaign against Trump\u2019s \u2018one, beautiful bill\u2019 to reduce public spending by at least $1.5tn to pay for tax cuts<\/p>\n<p>Democrats plan to put the squeeze on four of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress as the GOP gears up to pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/26\/republicans-trump-budget-bill\">massive bill<\/a> that may slash the social safety net to pay for tax cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday announced the \u201cFight to Save Medicaid\u201d, a pressure campaign that aims to derail the bill\u2019s passage in the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold only a three-seat majority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/02\/democrats-target-vulnerable-republicans-over-plan-to-cut-social-safety-net\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC to campaign against Trump\u2019s \u2018one, beautiful bill\u2019 to reduce public spending by at least $1.5tn to pay for tax cuts Democrats plan to put the squeeze on four of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress as the GOP gears up to pass a massive bill that may slash the social safety net to pay &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats target vulnerable Republicans over plan to cut social safety net\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/democrats-target-vulnerable-republicans-over-plan-to-cut-social-safety-net\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats target vulnerable Republicans over plan to cut social safety net\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}