{"id":79305,"date":"2026-09-29T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/us-senator-blocks-bill-to-ban-trump-from-demolishing-kennedy-center-without-congresss-approval\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:55:00","slug":"us-senator-blocks-bill-to-ban-trump-from-demolishing-kennedy-center-without-congresss-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/us-senator-blocks-bill-to-ban-trump-from-demolishing-kennedy-center-without-congresss-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress\u2019s approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/sep\/29\/donald-trump-iran-ai-jack-smith-media-white-house-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Republican senator has blocked a bipartisan bill that would have prevented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> from demolishing the Kennedy Center without the approval of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Lee, of Utah, objected on Monday night when the Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley asked the Senate to pass the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/Protecting-Presidential-Memorials-Act.pdf\">Protecting Presidential Memorials Act<\/a> by unanimous consent. The bill, co-written with the Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski, would have banned the demolition of any presidential memorial designated by Congress, including the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, unless lawmakers explicitly approved it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/sep\/29\/bill-trump-demolish-kennedy-center\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates US politics live \u2013 latest updates A Republican senator has blocked a bipartisan bill that would have prevented Donald Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center without the approval of Congress. Mike Lee, of Utah, objected on Monday night when the &#8230; <a title=\"US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress\u2019s approval\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/us-senator-blocks-bill-to-ban-trump-from-demolishing-kennedy-center-without-congresss-approval\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress\u2019s approval\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79305","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=79305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}