{"id":20945,"date":"2026-04-04T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-to-know-about-trumps-defense-budget-proposal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:22:10","slug":"what-to-know-about-trumps-defense-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-to-know-about-trumps-defense-budget-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Trump\u2019s defense budget proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Defense &amp; NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &amp;National Security Defense &amp;National Security &#8202; The Big Story  What to know about Trump&rsquo;s defense budget proposal  President Trump released his budget request for fiscal 2027 on Friday morning, including a whopping $1.5 trillion ask for the Pentagon&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5815826-what-to-know-about-trumps-defense-budget-proposal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Defense &amp; NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &amp;National Security Defense &amp;National Security &#8202; The Big Story What to know about Trump&rsquo;s defense budget proposal President Trump released his budget request for fiscal 2027 on Friday morning, including a whopping $1.5 trillion ask for the Pentagon&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20945","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\/20945","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=20945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}