{"id":114948,"date":"2026-06-08T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/08\/trump-allies-wanted-to-delete-this-consumer-watchdog-now-its-a-political-weapon-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:31:52","slug":"trump-allies-wanted-to-delete-this-consumer-watchdog-now-its-a-political-weapon-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/08\/trump-allies-wanted-to-delete-this-consumer-watchdog-now-its-a-political-weapon-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump allies wanted to \u2018delete\u2019 this consumer watchdog. Now it\u2019s a political weapon. &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxNMzRmWTJXREc3M1NwVWE2Z3VWTEJKcmpVX015Z3ZSMFhvbmpYVzlmUktiUTBVS2ZxYVcxQlBvcnJWclNERE9hLXFTN2Q0VkY4Umw1Ym5fWUdLUmZ0TXctNVF3RDhTMzQzdk9IRHB5RXdSR0NURG1HSWx6SUFraEExYkJfWGtnMEI0SjZBSzdLX1NuSTA0ZlRpcjZHSE5wUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump allies wanted to \u2018delete\u2019 this consumer watchdog. Now it\u2019s a political weapon.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump allies wanted to \u2018delete\u2019 this consumer watchdog. Now it\u2019s a political weapon.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}