{"id":16379,"date":"2025-12-07T21:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-governments-top-watchdog-is-retiring-but-the-trump-probes-continue-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:21:19","slug":"the-governments-top-watchdog-is-retiring-but-the-trump-probes-continue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-governments-top-watchdog-is-retiring-but-the-trump-probes-continue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The government\u2019s top watchdog is retiring \u2014 but the Trump probes continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comptroller general is wrapping up his term after an unprecedented year checking the Trump administration&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/07\/gene-dodaro-gao-trump-impoundment-00679550\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comptroller general is wrapping up his term after an unprecedented year checking the Trump administration&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16379","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\/16379","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=16379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}