{"id":22218,"date":"2026-05-03T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-warns-of-more-cuts-following-withdrawal-of-5000-us-troops-from-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:22:12","slug":"trump-warns-of-more-cuts-following-withdrawal-of-5000-us-troops-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-warns-of-more-cuts-following-withdrawal-of-5000-us-troops-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns of more cuts following withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said on Saturday that he might pull even more U.S. military troops out of Germany, a threat that came one day after he ordered the Pentagon to withdraw approximately 5,000 service members from the country.&nbsp; &ldquo;We are going to cut way down, and we&rsquo;re cutting a lot further than 5,000,&rdquo; Trump told reporters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5861129-trump-threatens-troop-withdrawal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said on Saturday that he might pull even more U.S. military troops out of Germany, a threat that came one day after he ordered the Pentagon to withdraw approximately 5,000 service members from the country.&nbsp; &ldquo;We are going to cut way down, and we&rsquo;re cutting a lot further than 5,000,&rdquo; Trump told reporters&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22218","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\/22218","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=22218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}