{"id":30127,"date":"2023-05-01T21:17:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T21:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-senate-republican-urges\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T23:00:37","slug":"us-senate-republican-urges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-senate-republican-urges\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate Republican urges Biden, McCarthy to meet on debt ceiling: &#8216;Time is a-wastin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211;     No. 2 U.S. Senate Republican John Thune on Monday said the news that the federal government could no longer be able to pay its bills as soon as June 1 was an urgent signal that Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy need to begin talks on raising the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It reinforces the need for the president to get up here or to get McCarthy down there to meet with him, one way or the other.  I mean, time is a-wasting,&#8221; Thune said.  <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Scott Malone)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-senate-republican-urges\/file-photo-u-s-senate-republicans-weekly-policy-lunch-at-u-s\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ400UT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ400UT-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; No. 2 U.S. Senate Republican John Thune on Monday said the news that the federal government could no longer be able to pay its bills as soon as June 1 was an urgent signal that Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy need to begin talks on raising the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-domestic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ400UT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30129,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30127\/revisions\/30129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}