{"id":21453,"date":"2026-04-16T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-slam-republicans-defend-vought-during-testy-house-hearing-3-takeaways\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:22:08","slug":"democrats-slam-republicans-defend-vought-during-testy-house-hearing-3-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-slam-republicans-defend-vought-during-testy-house-hearing-3-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats slam, Republicans defend Vought during testy House hearing: 3 takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought on Wednesday sparred with Democrats on the House Budget Committee over spending cuts proposed or enacted by the Trump administration. The annual hearing followed the Trump administration&#8217;s unveiling of its proposed budget for fiscal 2027&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5833431-vought-house-budget-committee\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought on Wednesday sparred with Democrats on the House Budget Committee over spending cuts proposed or enacted by the Trump administration. The annual hearing followed the Trump administration&#8217;s unveiling of its proposed budget for fiscal 2027&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21453","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\/21453","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=21453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}