{"id":15311,"date":"2025-11-06T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rubio-hegseth-boat-strike-briefing-doesnt-quell-democrats-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:20:25","slug":"rubio-hegseth-boat-strike-briefing-doesnt-quell-democrats-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rubio-hegseth-boat-strike-briefing-doesnt-quell-democrats-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio, Hegseth boat strike briefing doesn\u2019t quell Democrats\u2019 concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest briefing on the&nbsp;U.S. military&rsquo;s strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, did not quell the concerns of some Democrats in attendance, who are demanding more information about the operations that have killed more than 60 people.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5592319-us-military-drug-trafficking-strikes\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest briefing on the&nbsp;U.S. military&rsquo;s strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, did not quell the concerns of some Democrats in attendance, who are demanding more information about the operations that have killed more than 60 people.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}