{"id":16471,"date":"2025-12-10T04:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-leaves-democrats-frustrated-after-boat-strike-briefing\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:20:19","slug":"hegseth-leaves-democrats-frustrated-after-boat-strike-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-leaves-democrats-frustrated-after-boat-strike-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth leaves Democrats frustrated after boat strike briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth left Democrats frustrated after a classified, closed-door briefing regarding the Trump administration&#8217;s strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and other actions in the region.&nbsp; &ldquo;It was a very unsatisfying briefing. I asked Secretary of Defense Hegseth whether he would let every member of Congress see the unedited videos of&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5641558-democrats-frustrated-pentagon-briefing\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth left Democrats frustrated after a classified, closed-door briefing regarding the Trump administration&#8217;s strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and other actions in the region.&nbsp; &ldquo;It was a very unsatisfying briefing. I asked Secretary of Defense Hegseth whether he would let every member of Congress see the unedited videos of&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16471","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\/16471","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=16471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}