{"id":20116,"date":"2026-03-17T03:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-on-trumps-hormuz-plan-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:20:36","slug":"johnson-on-trumps-hormuz-plan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-on-trumps-hormuz-plan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson on Trump&#8217;s Hormuz plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he supports President Donald Trump&#8217;s effort to build a global coalition ensure safe passage of commerce through the Strait of Hormuz &mdash; even if Trump &#8220;didn&#8217;t anticipate it&#8221; being necessary before launching airstrikes against Iran.  Speaking to reporters after attending a Washington event with Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/16\/congress\/johnson-on-trumps-hormuz-plan-00830186\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he supports President Donald Trump&#8217;s effort to build a global coalition ensure safe passage of commerce through the Strait of Hormuz &mdash; even if Trump &#8220;didn&#8217;t anticipate it&#8221; being necessary before launching airstrikes against Iran. Speaking to reporters after attending a Washington event with Trump&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20116","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=20116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}