{"id":2611238,"date":"2026-06-05T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-thune-overcame-a-trump-sized-roadblock-to-funding-ice\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:20:12","slug":"how-thune-overcame-a-trump-sized-roadblock-to-funding-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-thune-overcame-a-trump-sized-roadblock-to-funding-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"How Thune overcame a Trump-sized roadblock to funding ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fhow-thune-overcame-a-trump-sized-roadblock-to-funding-ice%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=2611238&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>Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) endured an unusually tense late-night Senate \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-approve-budget-resolution-all-republicans-vote-no\/\" title=\"... Democrats Approve Budget Resolution, All ... ... No\">vote-a-rama<\/a>\u201d as lawmakers fought over an \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund promised by the Justice Department-an issue centered on whether money tied to a legal settlement supporting anti-Jan. 6 claims could be redirected or killed outright.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had already declared the fund \u201cdead\u201d in earlier testimony,which helped defuse the backlash for much of the moment. But Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), newly politically freed after losing his primary, pushed to have language written into an immigration enforcement funding bill that would preserve the provision-leading to hours of drafting, redrafting, and amendment maneuvering. Thune ultimately helped Republicans pass the broader bill, but Cassidy couldn\u2019t secure the simple-majority path he sought and conceded defeat overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The episode underscored broader friction for Thune with President Donald Trump,who earlier helped bring the settlement-related fund idea to fruition and than sent mixed signals about whether it was truly over-even as Thune had to manage conference unity.The fight over the immigration package was also part of a longer DHS funding saga triggered by prior shutdown negotiations and continued disputes over what guardrails and security funding should be included, with Republicans using a combination of regular appropriations and reconciliation to get the outcome they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Thune\u2019s negotiated approach is set to advance through the House, with Trump signing separate legislation to reopen the rest of DHS. Still, republicans increasingly see Trump\u2019s moves-along with ongoing curveballs in other legislative areas-as creating avoidable complications and deepening the strain between the Senate GOP and the White House.  <\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By hour 13 of Thursday\u2019s Senate \u201cvote-a-rama,\u201d Majority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-thune\/\">John Thune<\/a> (R-SD) was growing visibly frustrated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-cassidy\/\">Bill Cassidy<\/a> (R-LA) had spent the day consulting with the parliamentarian on a way, any way, to block an \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund the Justice Department had announced weeks earlier, and he was busy shuttling to and from the Senate floor to inquire about new versions of legislative text.<\/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\/news\/senate\/4597401\/how-thune-overcame-trump-roadblock-fund-ice\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>How Thune overcame a Trump-sized roadblock to funding ICE<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4595443\/inflation-trump-immunity-bill-pulte-takeaways-scott-bessent-testimony\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Inflation, Trump immunity, and Bill Pulte: Takeaways from Scott Bessent\u2019s testimony<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4594745\/ron-desantis-national-debt-plan-washington\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>DeSantis brings national debt plan to Washington as 2028 election season nears: \u2018Not about Left, Right\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The matter was moot to Thune. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4592077\/blanche-weaponization-fund-dead-for-good\/\">declared the fund dead<\/a> two days earlier in congressional testimony, helping calm a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4578428\/senate-punts-immigration-enforcement-vote\/\">bipartisan uproar<\/a> over its expected payouts to Jan. 6 defendants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Cassidy, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4573703\/bill-cassidy-no-regrets-after-primary-loss\/\">politically liberated<\/a> after his primary loss in Louisiana, would not let the issue drop, and he wanted that promise written into legislation funding deportation operations at the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis would have been done several hours ago if we weren\u2019t having to deal with some of the issues around the fund, which doesn\u2019t exist, which is the point we\u2019re making,\u201d Thune told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s redrafted it many, many times in the last 13 hours,\u201d Thune said, \u201cso we\u2019re trying to push to get him to do something with it, and soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate eventually passed that immigration enforcement bill. Cassidy was unable to find a solution that would allow his provision to be adopted by a simple majority vote, and he admitted defeat in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4596273\/senate-immigration-enforcement-bill-lawfare-fund\/\">early hours of Friday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the entire episode was emblematic of a larger problem for Thune. President Donald Trump had created the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4578862\/gop-caps-turbulent-week-points-finger-white-house-bill-blunder\/\">headache out of thin air<\/a>, brokering the anti-weaponization fund \u2014 the product of a legal settlement \u2014 just as the legislation was ready to be put on the floor. And he made matters worse by alienating Cassidy, who had spent the last year and a half largely aligned with Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is, until the president ran a primary challenge against Cassidy and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4571020\/cassidy-loses-reelection-campaign\/\">ousted him<\/a> from his seat last month.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-mixed-signals\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Mixed signals\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thune has become accustomed to the whiplash as a feature, not a bug, of the second Trump presidency. He\u2019s navigated <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4593940\/white-house-bill-pulte-spy-powers-fisa\/\">controversial Cabinet nominees<\/a>, a dispute over the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4465730\/maga-backlash-thune-save-act-filibuster\/\">SAVE America Act<\/a>, and the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4497729\/john-thune-trump-nato-withdrawal-congressional-approval\/\">constant churn<\/a> of a Trump-driven news cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the road to passing the immigration bill was particularly rocky, and the anti-weaponization fund wasn\u2019t the only speed bump. There was the security funding the White House wanted for Trump\u2019s East Wing ballroom. The money was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4593536\/senate-republicans-drop-trump-ballroom-security-funding\/\">excluded from the final bill<\/a>, but not without days of hand-wringing from vulnerable Republicans who feared being linked to what Democrats called an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4565549\/gop-heartburn-forces-message-pivot-money-trump-ballroom\/\">expensive vanity project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was even discussion with the White House about adding money for Trump\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4595866\/dc-planning-commission-trump-arch-height\/\">triumphal arch<\/a>, according to a source familiar with the matter, although it was not contemplated seriously enough for Republicans to draft legislative text. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each development presented a dilemma Thune had to untangle in private or during last-minute haggling on the Senate floor. The last time Republicans pushed a partisan bill through reconciliation, it became a behemoth that almost didn\u2019t pass the Senate. This time, Thune wanted to keep it \u201cskinny,\u201d or \u201canorexically skinny\u201d as he\u2019d say for emphasis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the anti-weaponization fund, it took a Tuesday conversation with Blanche to find a path forward. Thune expressed the trouble it was causing for members of his conference, and when Blanche informed him that he\u2019d address the fund in congressional testimony later that day, Thune said a definitive statement would go a long way in getting the immigration bill through the Senate, according to a source familiar with the conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the Senate floor, Thune spent hours huddling with vulnerable incumbents who still had to navigate amendment votes on the fund, and it took some <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4594904\/senate-vote-trump-anti-weaponization-fund\/\">legislative gymnastics<\/a> Thursday to allow Republicans to vote against it without actually jeopardizing the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through it all, Thune was dealing with mixed signals from the president, who undermined Blanche Wednesday by musing that he <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4593950\/trump-anti-weaponization-fund-future\/\">wasn\u2019t sure<\/a> the fund was dead and that he viewed it as a \u201cbeautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere certainly have been mixed signals on some of these issues with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorney-lin-wood-defends-ag-bill-barr-after-announces-he-is-stepping-down-trump-voters-respond\/\" title=\"Attorney Lin Wood Defends AG ... Barr After Announces He Is Stepping Down \u2014 Trump ...rs Respond\">acting attorney general<\/a>,\u201d said Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who repeatedly voted to kill the anti-weaponization fund during the vote-a-rama. \u201cThe White House\u2019s position has been rather confusing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-a-monthslong-saga\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A monthslong saga<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome Thune achieved on Friday morning, after an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >18-hour vote-a-rama<\/a>, was hardly Plan A for Republicans. The Senate was on the verge of passing funding for all of DHS back in January, before the fatal shooting of two protesters in Minneapolis blew up negotiations and ignited a monthslong shutdown at the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats, up until that point, were going to fund immigration enforcement and settle for modest reforms, including money for body cameras, after a protester was killed by a DHS agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the second, Democrats walked away from the deal and began weeks of fruitless negotiations for more significant guardrails on officer conduct. The White House <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4494854\/white-house-dhs-government-shutdown-ice-self-identify\/\">offered a list of concessions<\/a>, but not the more ambitious ones Democrats sought, and Republicans found themselves back at square one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By April, Thune managed to bring the White House around to a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4538070\/senate-immigration-enforcement-dhs-end-run\/\">two-step plan<\/a> that sidestepped the Democrats. Republicans could fund everything except Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the two departments at the center of the Minneapolis shootings, through the regular appropriations process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deportation operations would then be funded through reconciliation, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-johnson-open-to-trump-megabill-after-vance-meeting\/\" title=\"Ron Johnson open to Trump mega... after Vance meeting\">filibuster-skirting budget process<\/a>, with just Republican votes and would last three years \u2014 effectively taking the problem off the table for the rest of Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-trump-s-curveballs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump\u2019s curveballs<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That plan is about to come to fruition. The House will take up the Senate bill funding ICE next week, and Trump already signed into law legislation reopening the rest of DHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the entire ordeal has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4499421\/thune-trump-relationship-strong-save-america-rough-patch\/\">strained Thune\u2019s relationship<\/a> with the president and has fueled a sense among Senate Republicans that Trump is making life harder than it needs to be, both legislatively and on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4507112\/trump-sides-with-johnson-over-thune-in-senate-house-brawl-to-end-dhs-shutdown\/\">initially opposed<\/a> the go-it-alone plan to fund ICE. The president also threw a curveball in March when he <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4502000\/trump-likely-not-happy-dhs-funding-deal\/\">demanded<\/a> that Democrats accept the SAVE America Act, his signature election bill, for Republicans to support any deal on DHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside of reconciliation, Trump has created trouble for Republicans with his <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4591618\/bill-pulte-intelligence-concerns\/\">unexpected announcements<\/a>. Senators brokered a bipartisan deal to extend the federal government\u2019s spy powers, but that agreement now hangs in the balance after Trump appointed a loyalist with no national security experience as his acting director of national intelligence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, Thune delicately blamed \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SavBehrmannDC\/status\/2062833721187750025?s=20\">timing issues<\/a>\u201d for the setbacks.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-it-s-always-difficult\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018It\u2019s always difficult\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Trump\u2019s defenders, the drama of this week was nothing unusual. Vote-a-ramas routinely stretch late into the night, and though Democrats latched on to the anti-weaponization fund, they\u2019ve made affordability and other political flashpoints the centerpiece of their messaging on other occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s always difficult,\u201d said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). \u201cIf it\u2019s not one thing, it\u2019s another. There\u2019s always some hiccup, there\u2019s always some roadblocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the fight over reconciliation demonstrated the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4581932\/thune-trump-rough-patch-senate-frustrations-boil-over\/\">growing gulf<\/a> between Senate Republicans and the White House. They were already livid with Trump for ousting Cassidy and helping to defeat a second incumbent, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time the Justice Department scrapped the anti-weaponization fund, the damage had already been done, and Thune was left with the job of keeping Republicans aligned with the White House while still letting them register their disapproval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4595662\/senate-republicans-pump-brakes-todd-blanche-ag-nomination\/\"><strong>SENATE REPUBLICANS PUMP THE BRAKES ON TODD BLANCHE AG NOMINATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the middle grounds, an amendment authored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), blocked the anti-weaponization fund and redirected the money to assist the DOJ\u2019s fraud task force, an effort that Democrats opposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dozen Republicans voted for that amendment, but it failed without Democratic support. Republicans also broke with Trump on several Democrat-led amendments, but none of them passed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By hour 13 of Thursday\u2019s Senate vote-a-rama, John Thune grew frustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3204,"featured_media":2611239,"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\/06\/AP26156703206689-e1780692564623.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[80096,55224,80919,80918,23610],"class_list":["post-2611238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-icefunding","tag-immigrationenforcement","tag-legislativestrategy","tag-overcomingobstacles","tag-thune"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26156703206689-e1780692564623.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611238","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\/3204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611242,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611238\/revisions\/2611242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2611239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}