{"id":2041,"date":"2024-11-12T11:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/top-senate-gop-defense-hawk-has-pentagon-budget-boost-plan-with-sunnier-post-trump-win-prospects-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:29:11","slug":"top-senate-gop-defense-hawk-has-pentagon-budget-boost-plan-with-sunnier-post-trump-win-prospects-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-senate-gop-defense-hawk-has-pentagon-budget-boost-plan-with-sunnier-post-trump-win-prospects-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Senate GOP defense hawk has Pentagon budget boost plan \u2014 with sunnier post-Trump-win prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Roger Wicker, one of Capitol Hill&rsquo;s most vocal defense hawks, will soon get the chance to pursue a larger Pentagon budget &mdash; and it stands a much better chance with Donald Trump headed back to the White House. The Mississippi Republican is poised to chair the Armed Services Committee after the GOP romped in Tuesday&rsquo;s Senate elections&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/11\/congress\/wickers-pentagon-plans-00188777\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Roger Wicker, one of Capitol Hill&rsquo;s most vocal defense hawks, will soon get the chance to pursue a larger Pentagon budget &mdash; and it stands a much better chance with Donald Trump headed back to the White House. The Mississippi Republican is poised to chair the Armed Services Committee after the GOP romped in [&hellip;]<\/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-2041","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\/2041","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=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}