{"id":87923,"date":"2017-08-24T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trump-says-debt-ceiling-mess-could-have-been-avoided-twitter.html"},"modified":"2017-08-24T13:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:29:39","slug":"trump-says-debt-ceiling-mess-could-have-been-avoided-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-says-debt-ceiling-mess-could-have-been-avoided-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump says debt ceiling &#8216;mess&#8217; could have been avoided: Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\"40\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Thursday that a legislative &#8220;mess&#8221; could have been avoided if Republican congressional leaders had followed his advice to tie debt ceiling legislation to a veterans affairs bill. <\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"41\">&#8220;I requested that Mitch M  Paul R tie the Debt Ceiling legislation into the popular V.A. Bill (which just passed) for easy approval,&#8221; wrote Trump, referring to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan. &#8220;Could have been so easy-now a mess!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Attribution_content_27_rw\" data-reactid=\"44\">Reporting by David Alexander; Writing by Makini Brice<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/Reuters\/PoliticsNews\/~3\/AGWG5FX563Q\/us-usa-trump-budget-twitter-idUSKCN1B41IS<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Thursday that a legislative &#8220;mess&#8221; could have been avoided if Republican congressional leaders had followed his advice to tie debt ceiling legislation to a veterans affairs bill. &#8220;I requested that Mitch M Paul R tie the Debt Ceiling legislation into the popular V.A. Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-87923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}