{"id":18717,"date":"2025-10-23T00:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/18717\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:58:28","slug":"connect-to-congress-with-congressman-jim-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/18717\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect to Congress with Congressman Jim Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif (FOX26) \u2014 It&#8217;s time to Connect To Congress, a segment where we talk directly to Washington lawmakers who represent us here in the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, we talked with the Representative of California&#8217;s 21st Congressional District, Congressman Jim Costa.<\/p>\n<p>We talked to Rep. Costa about the government shutdown, which is now in its 22nd day.<\/p>\n<p>We also talked about the SNAP food assistance program that is about to run out of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif (FOX26) \u2014 It&#8217;s time to Connect To Congress, a segment where we talk directly to Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7,512,1752,3303,112,114,113,638,15716,15717,3304],"class_list":{"0":"post-18717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-central-valley","10":"tag-congress","11":"tag-food-assistance","12":"tag-fresno","13":"tag-fresno-headlines","14":"tag-fresno-news","15":"tag-government-shutdown","16":"tag-jim-costa","17":"tag-lawmakers","18":"tag-snap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}