{"id":592781,"date":"2026-04-28T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592781"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:58:04","slug":"judge-questions-trumps-plan-to-close-the-kennedy-center-for-2-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592781","title":{"rendered":"Judge questions Trump&#8217;s plan to close the Kennedy Center for 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit that could decide whether Washington&#8217;s Kennedy Center closes in July for renovations questioned the Trump administration&#8217;s plans for the storied performing arts venue, asking Tuesday why the center needed to be closed entirely and whether the administration had done the research to back that decision.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/04\/28\/Trump_Kennedy_Center_Lawsuit_11493_s1440x959.jpg?38ee4b81f9b4ccf2a99f00d05e55ab87790d4572\" title=\"Judge questions Trump's plan to close the Kennedy Center for 2 years\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit that could decide whether Washington&#8217;s Kennedy Center closes in July for renovations questioned the Trump administration&#8217;s plans for the storied performing arts venue, asking Tuesday why the center needed to be closed entirely and whether the administration had done the research to back that decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/592763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}