{"id":353847,"date":"2026-05-14T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-boomer-rep-mocked-a-child-about-the-4-trillion-debt-she-saddled-him-with\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:05:53","slug":"this-boomer-rep-mocked-a-child-about-the-4-trillion-debt-she-saddled-him-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-boomer-rep-mocked-a-child-about-the-4-trillion-debt-she-saddled-him-with\/","title":{"rendered":"This boomer rep mocked a child about the $4 trillion debt she saddled him with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/this-boomer-rep-mocked-a-child-about-the-4-trillion-debt-she-saddled-him-with.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>An 82 year old Congressional representative is getting heat for an embarrassing letter she wrote to a well-meaning 10 year old constituent on the topic of electric cars and climate change, where she seems to brag about saddling his generation with debt through a recent climate rollback she voted for. And she\u2019s up for re-election for the 12th time, by the way. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/05\/14\/this-boomer-rep-mocked-a-child-about-the-4-trillion-debt-she-saddled-him-with\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-boomer-rep-mocked-a-child-about-the-4-trillion-debt-she-saddled-him-with\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":353848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}