{"id":393534,"date":"2019-01-20T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-lawmaker-offers-bizarre-solution-to-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T17:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T16:55:56","slug":"presstv-us-lawmaker-offers-bizarre-solution-to-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-lawmaker-offers-bizarre-solution-to-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US lawmaker offers bizarre solution to shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump and all members of Congress should be locked in a room and left unpaid until they reach a deal to end the longest ever US government shutdown, a Republican lawmaker has suggested.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really do believe that you should lock every member of Congress in a room, bring the president in, no phones, no pay. You\u2019re not leaving until there\u2019s white smoke,\u201d Representative Lee Zeldin said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to negotiate, compromise with each other, with the president. I think you\u2019d have a deal within maybe 45 minutes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The New York lawmaker made the remarks after Democrats rejected an offer by Trump to end the shutdown, which began on December 22 over the president\u2019s plea for $5.7 billion to build his controversial wall on the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>In his proposal, Trump agreed to extend temporary protections for young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children &#8212; known as Dreamers &#8212; and individuals&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/20\/586317\/US-Zeldin-Trump-Congress-lock-up-shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump and all members of Congress should be locked in a room and left unpaid until they reach a deal to end the longest ever US government shutdown, a Republican lawmaker has suggested. \u201cI really do believe that you should lock every member of Congress in a room, bring the president in, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}