{"id":8135,"date":"2025-10-31T00:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:44:04","slug":"thune-erupts-in-rare-anger-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8135","title":{"rendered":"Thune Erupts in Rare Anger, Blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Thune Blasts Democrats Over Prolonged Shutdown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), usually known for his composure, erupted on the Senate floor Wednesday,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>accusing Democrats of extending the government shutdown and using food aid as \u201cpolitical leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During debate over funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thune noted Republicans had voted 13 times to reopen the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are 29 days into a Democrat shutdown,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSNAP recipients shouldn\u2019t go without food\u2026 You voted no 13 times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visibly frustrated, Thune added, \u201cYou finally realize this thing has consequences,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>slapping the lectern for emphasis. He warned, \u201cThis isn\u2019t a political game. These are real people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats, led by Sen. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-NM), pushed a standalone SNAP bill,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>while Republicans proposed a broader measure covering food aid and military pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thune dismissed both, demanding full reopening of the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thune Blasts Democrats Over Prolonged Shutdown Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), usually known for his composure, erupted on the Senate floor Wednesday, accusing Democrats of extending the government shutdown and using food aid as \u201cpolitical leverage.\u201d During debate over funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Thune noted Republicans had voted 13 times to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}