{"id":35541,"date":"2024-12-09T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35541"},"modified":"2024-12-18T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:04:17","slug":"vinson-speaks-to-newsweek-about-implications-of-a-thin-house-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/vinson-speaks-to-newsweek-about-implications-of-a-thin-house-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson speaks to Newsweek about implications of a thin House majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">Furman University&#8217;s Danielle Vinson, a professor of politics and international affairs, spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/gop-house-majority-may-drop-below-218-seats-here-s-what-that-means\/ar-AA1vl30m\">Newsweek&#8217;s<\/a> Ewan Palmer about the narrow majority the House of Representatives will hold with several leaving the floor to join President-Elect Trump&#8217;s cabinet. &#8220;Even when Republicans return to full strength after special elections, they will have only 220 seats,&#8221; Vinson said. &#8220;It should make Mike Johnson&#8217;s life interesting, especially on issues like raising the debt limit or the budget, where Freedom Caucus members have played hardball in the past. They&#8217;ve refused to support their own party leadership unless they secured major spending cuts or other deficit reductions,&#8221; she added. Vinson&#8217;s comments also appeared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/republican-house-majority-in-peril\/ar-AA1w1mWb\">later Newsweek<\/a> article by Martha McHardy, &#8220;Republican House Majority in Peril.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slim majority in the House could lead to difficult days for Republican leadership. Furman&#8217;s Danielle Vinson spoke to Newsweek&#8217;s Ewan Palmer about the ramifications. Her comments also appeared in a later Newsweek article on the same subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,1873,32],"tags":[3177,3176,914],"class_list":["post-35541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-newsweek","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-house-majority","tag-house-of-representative","tag-legislation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35541"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35661,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35541\/revisions\/35661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}