{"id":2603029,"date":"2026-05-15T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-sasses-warning-to-the-senate-went-unheeded\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:22:52","slug":"ben-sasses-warning-to-the-senate-went-unheeded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-sasses-warning-to-the-senate-went-unheeded\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Sasse&#8217;s warning to the Senate went unheeded"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-sasses-warning-to-the-senate-went-unheeded%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2603029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ben Sasse entered the U.S. Senate in November 2015 and, after a year of studying how the institution worked, delivered a \u201cmaiden speech\u201d that sharply criticized Senate dysfunction-especially its slide into nonstop news cycles, sound bites, grandstanding, and fundraising incentives instead of serious governing. The article argues that even though Sasse may not have left behind headline legislation, he understood the Senate\u2019s proper role as a deliberative body meant too slow and constrain impulsive or delegating tendencies from the House and the executive, forcing constitutional limits.<\/p>\n<p>It reviews competing critiques of Sasse: critics on the left said he opposed Trump rhetorically while supporting Trump\u2019s agenda legislatively; critics on the right viewed him as more performative and pundit-like than fully aligned with the governance. The piece counters that both miss crucial parts of his record, citing his substantive work on the senate Intelligence Committee on China, and pointing to several legislative efforts and amendments he helped advance, including measures impacting intellectual property theft, technology competition with China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-investigating-dhs-secretary-for-alleged-dereliction-of-duty\/\" title=\"GOP Investigating DHS Secretary for Alleged Neglect of Duty\">homeland security oversight<\/a>, and \u201cBorn-Alive\u201d abortion-related protections.<\/p>\n<p>The article also emphasizes that Sasse repeatedly delivered institutional critiques in high-visibility moments-for example,during Supreme Court confirmation hearings-arguing that the circus around confirmations is a symptom of Congress delegating too much legislative authority and then blaming the courts. After resigning in 2023,observers briefly interpreted it as confirmation of the \u201cpundit\u201d label,but the author presents it as his conclusion that the senate had become \u201cunproductive\u201d and that the cost of staying in politics outweighed the benefits.<\/p>\n<p>the piece recounts Sasse\u2019s return to public engagement after his 2025 diagnosis of advanced, metastatic stage-four pancreatic cancer-through a podcast and major interviews-where he continued to broaden his call for a more deliberative, less show-driven Senate focused on long-term thinking. The central claim is that what he leaves behind is a consistent, costly argument about what the Senate should be, and that his inability to reform it was less a surprise than the persistence of his attempt.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>When <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ben-sasse\/\">Ben Sasse<\/a> walked onto the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\">Senate floor<\/a> in November 2015 to deliver his first speech as a member of the upper chamber, he did something unusual: He had waited a full year to speak. It\u2019s part of a Senate tradition known as the \u201cmaiden speech.\u201d A historian by training and a management consulting associate by early vocation, he had spent his first year in the chamber interviewing colleagues, studying how the institution functioned, and developing a diagnosis before offering it publicly. When he finally spoke, the speech landed with enough force that Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitch-mcconnell\/\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-KY) distributed the text to every Republican senator, a gesture the Senate GOP leader at the time rarely made.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4568945\/trump-pro-life-dilemma-anti-abortion-movement\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump 2.0 and the pro-life dilemma<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4569283\/when-national-security-becomes-excuse-for-big-government\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>When \u2018national security\u2019 becomes an excuse for big government<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4568332\/the-right-tax-identity-crisis\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>The Right\u2019s tax identity crisis<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cNo one in this body thinks the Senate is laser-focused on the most pressing issues facing the nation,\u201d Sasse told his colleagues. \u201cNo one.\u201d The indictment was bipartisan, surgical, and delivered with the calm of a man who had considered it carefully before speaking. The Senate, he argued, had surrendered its institutional identity to the rhythms of the 24-hour news cycle, to the demand for sound bites, and to the incentive to grandstand for a narrow base and raise money rather than legislate for a country. \u201cThe people despise us all,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd why is this? Because we\u2019re not doing our job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It served as a warning that went unheeded, and 11 years later, we\u2019re watching more dysfunction in government than ever before. Sasse, dying of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer at 54, is still saying the same thing. The diagnosis has not changed the message. It has sharpened it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sasse, his son Augustin, and his wife Melissa at a swearing-in ceremony wih Vice President Joe Biden, Jan. 6, 2015.  (.Photo By Bill Clark\/CQ Roll Call)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whether Sasse was a \u201cgood\u201d or \u201ceffective\u201d senator is debatable. Whether <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\">Washington<\/a> currently has enough senators like him is not a close question.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism that followed him throughout his eight-year tenure is almost entirely subjective. His critics on the Left saw a man willing to deplore Trumpism in public while voting with President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s agenda in practice. His critics on the Right, particularly as the party realigned, saw a posturing institutionalist more interested in making points and serving as a pundit than in getting on board fully with the president\u2019s policies. The most durable version of this critique runs something like: He gave great speeches and passed no significant legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Yuval Levin, founding editor of National Affairs and director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, largely rejects both sets of criticisms. On the Trump question specifically, Levin is direct: \u201cThe notion that there was much more he could have done to hold Trump to account is misdirected and mistaken. He took on Trump when he disagreed with him, and when he thought Trump had exceeded his authority or violated his oath. And unlike most Senate Republican critics of Trump, he ran for reelection and won after doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The objection to the lack of signature legislation mistakes the Senate\u2019s function for a body it was never designed to be. In the framework Sasse spent years articulating, the Senate is not primarily a factory for producing legislation. It is a deliberative institution meant to apply friction to democratic impulses in the House of Representatives, to slow things down when people want to move too fast, and to force the executive and judiciary to operate within appropriate constitutional limits. By that standard, which is closer to the Founders\u2019 intent than the one applied by Sasse\u2019s critics, he understood and performed his role better than most of his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpundit\u201d critique oversimplifies his actual record. Sasse served on the Senate Intelligence Committee throughout his tenure, and his work on China there was substantive and largely ahead of the political mainstream. When it was still unfashionable for a Republican to identify Beijing as a generational geopolitical threat rather than an irritating trade partner, Sasse was making that case in the committee rooms that mattered. He had genuine expertise in China\u2019s intelligence operations and, accordingly, used his position, spending considerable time in secure facilities at times when most of his colleagues were busy developing more social media strategy. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), who worked alongside him on the intelligence committee, offered perhaps the most precise characterization of what made Sasse different, telling Scott Pelley on <em>60 Minutes<\/em> in April that Sasse \u201cnever really thought about things as conservative, liberal. He thought much more about issues, such as the future and the past.\u201d Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Sasse had a \u201cconcern not just for today, but for tomorrow and the future\u201d and that he \u201cwasn\u2019t distracted by all the noise that goes around us on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sasse\u2019s legislative fingerprints are also more visible than the pundit label suggests. He helped push through the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act alongside Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), mandating sanctions on firms and individuals who steal American trade secrets, and saw it included in the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021. He secured an amendment to that legislation authorizing an additional $3.5 billion annually for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, targeting the technology competition with China that has since become the central organizing principle of American foreign policy. He co-wrote the National Risk Management Act with Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), strengthening Department of Homeland Security oversight of critical infrastructure. He, along with others, introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a straightforward piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-carolina-to-become-latest-state-to-pass-heartbeat-bill\/\" title=\"South Carolina to Become Latest State to Pass Heartbeat Bill\">pro-life legislation<\/a> that drew little of the attention he received for his more rhetorical moments. Heritage Action, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation, notorious for calling out Republicans in name only, has Sasse\u2019s career rating at 87% alignment, above the Senate Republican average of 78%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), second from left, with Sens. Chris Coons (D-DE), far left, Dick Durbin (D-IL), second from right, and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), far right, during Judge Neil Gorsuch\u2019s Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, March 21, 2017.  (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Levin, who watched Sasse\u2019s tenure closely, offers a candid accounting of his legislative limitations. \u201cIt\u2019s true that Ben was not an active legislator, advancing proposals, sponsoring and co-sponsoring legislation, and building coalitions,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was active in some key committees, especially the Intelligence Committee, where it seemed to him that active engagement could make a difference. But I think he concluded this was not the case in some of his other committees and that he might be more useful as a critic and observer of the institution. No individual senator gets a lot done right now, and of course, that\u2019s part of the frustration he had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the moments that defined Sasse as a senator were the ones that did not produce legislation, and those are the moments worth examining without the usual condescension.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of Justice <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/brett-kavanaugh\/\">Brett Kavanaugh<\/a>\u2018s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a> confirmation hearings in September 2018, the chamber descended almost immediately into the theater that had by then become customary. Protesters disrupted proceedings from the gallery. Democratic senators jockeyed for camera time. The atmosphere was more performance than inquiry. Into this circus, Sasse delivered a 12-minute statement that went viral because it said plainly what almost no one in that room was willing to say: The hysteria around confirmation hearings is a symptom, not the disease. Congress had spent decades delegating its legislative authority to executive agencies and now blamed the courts for filling the vacuum. \u201cIt is predictable now that every confirmation hearing is going to be an overblown, politicized circus,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s because we\u2019ve accepted a bad new theory about how our three branches of government should work.\u201d The corrective he offered was simple: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\">Congress<\/a> should pass laws and stand before voters. The executive should enforce those laws. Judges should apply them, not write them. Naturally, no one disagreed out loud.<\/p>\n<p>He delivered a version of the same argument at Justice <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/amy-coney-barrett\/\">Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>\u2018s hearing in 2020. Neither speech moved the institution. Both captured something true and important about why the institution was failing, and both were widely shared by people who had largely stopped expecting a sitting senator to say anything worth sharing. The Kavanaugh statement was described in this publication at the time as the civics lesson Washington desperately needed. That it needed to be given by a freshman senator to the full <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate-judiciary-committee\/\">Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a> was Sasse\u2019s real point.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A campaign sign for Ben Sasse near Fremont, Nebraska, Oct. 12, 2014. (Andrew Burton \/ Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also understood, more clearly than most of his colleagues, that the Senate\u2019s dysfunction was not incidental but structural. The cameras, he argued, were a bad incentive. The constant travel and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >time spent fundraising corroded<\/a> the relationships that make effective governing possible. Most tellingly, he believed that senators had come to treat their office as the purpose of their lives rather than a temporary form of service to something larger. When Pelley noted on <em>60 Minutes<\/em> that many senators he knew \u201cwould not be able to breathe without that job,\u201d Sasse replied that he feared that was true and that it represented \u201ca much, much deeper problem.\u201d The best title a person could hold, he said, was dad, mom, neighbor, friend. Senator was \u201ca great way to serve. It should be your 11th calling or maybe sixth, but never top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he resigned from the Senate in January 2023 with four years remaining in his term to become president of the University of Florida, many observers treated it as confirmation of the pundit critique: He could not stay the course. The more honest reading is that he had concluded the institution was, as he told Pelley, \u201cvery, very unproductive\u201d and that there were better things for him to do. \u201cWe didn\u2019t do real things,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it felt like the opportunity cost was really high.\u201d He moved to Florida, then stepped down from that post roughly a year and a half later when his wife, Melissa, was diagnosed with epilepsy and required full-time care. The man who had argued that being a senator should rank no higher than sixth on a person\u2019s list of priorities was living accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Dec. 23, 2025, he posted the news to X. \u201cLast week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.\u201d He was 53. Doctors at MD Anderson Cancer Center had cataloged the full spread: lymphoma, vascular cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, and pancreatic cancer, the point of origin. He had been given three to four months to live. He called it what it was: \u201cAdvanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it\u2019s a death sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Illustration by Jason Seiler for the Washington Examiner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What followed was unexpected, at least to anyone who had expected Sasse to retreat from public life. He launched a podcast called <em>Not Dead Yet<\/em>. He sat down for a conversation with <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Ross Douthat on the latter\u2019s <em>Interesting Times<\/em> podcast in April, which was released just days after the interview aired and subsequently circulated widely. He appeared on <em>60 Minutes<\/em> with Pelley on April 26, his face visibly marked by his medication, a drug called daraxonrasib from Revolution Medicines that had shrunk his tumors by 76% and extended his life by months that were not supposed to exist. He credited the extra time to \u201cprovidence, prayer, and a miracle drug.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Douthat interview was the more intimate of the two conversations and the more remarkable. Douthat asked Sasse at the close whether he felt ready to die. Sasse said he did not feel ready but that he had hope, grounded in his Reformed Christian faith, that he would be with God. The response moved Douthat visibly to tears, something Sasse responded to with his characteristic dry humor. Earlier in the conversation, Sasse reflected on what the disease had given him alongside what it had taken. \u201cI hate pancreatic cancer,\u201d he told Douthat. \u201cI would never wish it on anyone, but I would never want to go back to a time in my life where I didn\u2019t know the prayer of pancreatic cancer. I can\u2019t keep the planets in orbit. I can\u2019t even grow skin on my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cprayer of pancreatic cancer,\u201d as Sasse uses the phrase, is something like the acknowledgment of dependence that most people spend their healthiest years avoiding. He is not unusual among the terminally ill in arriving at that acknowledgment. He is unusual in the way he has extended it outward, into public argument, into the same institutional critique he was making in November 2015. On <em>60 Minutes<\/em>, he was asked what Congress was missing, and he named the artificial intelligence revolution, the future of work, and the complete absence of 2030 or 2050 thinking in either party. Then, without prompting, he returned to the frame he had always used. \u201cThe Senate needs to be less like Instagram. The Senate needs to be more deliberative, and that means less smack-down nonsense,\u201d he told Pelley, adding, \u201cThe Senate should be plodding, and steady, and boring, and trustworthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had been saying some version of that sentence for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sasse ascends the Senate steps before the last votes before a recess, Aug. 3, 2017. (Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sasse leaves no signature legislation bearing his name on the front. What he leaves is rarer in the current political environment: a coherent argument about what the Senate is supposed to be, made consistently, publicly, and at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-bill-cassidy-snub-rattles-gop-primaries\/\" title=\"......s Bill Cassidy snub rattles GOP primaries\">real political cost<\/a>, by a man who spent eight years in the institution and found it resistant to everything he believed about it. That he could not reform the Senate is not surprising. That he kept trying, right up until the diagnosis and through it, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alert-journalists-are-actively-spreading-misinformation\/\" title=\"ALERT: Journalists Are Actively Spreading Misinformation\">thing worth noting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/4558624\/ben-sasse-antemortum-obituary\/\"><strong>BEN SASSE, I WANT YOU TO READ YOUR OBITUARY WHILE YOU STILL CAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Levin is cautiously hopeful about whether that effort was entirely in vain. \u201cThe renewal of the Senate will follow from the frustration of senators who want it to be more relevant and functional,\u201d he said. \u201cThat sentiment is certainly growing, but it will need to be reasonably durable and bipartisan to matter, and we\u2019re not there yet. I do think we could find ourselves there, absolutely, but it will take more people like Ben Sasse willing to run and to embody that view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senators who followed him mostly did not replace him. The Senate he described, plodding and steady and boring and trustworthy, is further from realization now than when he walked onto that floor in November 2015 and told his colleagues the truth. That is not a failure, but a confirmation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jay Caruso (<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JayCaruso\"><em>@JayCaruso<\/em><\/a><em>) is a writer living in West Virginia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sasse\u2019s first Senate speech in 2015 was delayed a year-an intentional \u201cmaiden speech\u201d tradition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4087,"featured_media":2603030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Feat.Sasse2_052026.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69311,5894,3740,7267],"class_list":["post-2603029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ben-sasse","tag-politics","tag-senate","tag-warning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Feat.Sasse2_052026.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603038,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603029\/revisions\/2603038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2603030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}