{"id":17221,"date":"2025-12-31T02:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-federal-governments-top-watchdog-has-retired-now-congress-has-to-pick-a-replacement\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:20:40","slug":"the-federal-governments-top-watchdog-has-retired-now-congress-has-to-pick-a-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-federal-governments-top-watchdog-has-retired-now-congress-has-to-pick-a-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"The federal government\u2019s top watchdog has retired. Now Congress has to pick a replacement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comptroller general&rsquo;s 15-year term is up, triggering a search for a long-term replacement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/congress-trump-gao-search-00706651\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comptroller general&rsquo;s 15-year term is up, triggering a search for a long-term replacement&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17221","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\/17221","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=17221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}