{"id":21821,"date":"2026-04-24T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-ally-ronny-jackson-weighs-bid-for-top-house-armed-services-spot-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:22","slug":"trump-ally-ronny-jackson-weighs-bid-for-top-house-armed-services-spot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-ally-ronny-jackson-weighs-bid-for-top-house-armed-services-spot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ally Ronny Jackson weighs bid for top House Armed Services spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Republican said he&rsquo;d likely need to make a decision &ldquo;soon&rdquo; about joining the field &mdash; which already includes GOP Reps. Rob Wittman and Trent Kelly&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/23\/congress\/trump-ally-ronny-jackson-house-armed-services-00888856\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Republican said he&rsquo;d likely need to make a decision &ldquo;soon&rdquo; about joining the field &mdash; which already includes GOP Reps. Rob Wittman and Trent Kelly&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21821","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\/21821","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=21821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}