{"id":22566,"date":"2026-05-12T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/colby-to-rsc-lunch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:02:32","slug":"colby-to-rsc-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/colby-to-rsc-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby to RSC lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Top Pentagon policy official Elbridge Colby is set to meet with the Republican Study Committee Wednesday, according to a person granted anonymity to describe the plans.<\/p>\n<p>Colby is likely to address a massive new military funding request with the sprawling group of conservative lawmakers \u2014 a day after his boss, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, testified before appropriators on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/03\/trump-white-house-budget-00857167\" target=\"_blank\">$1.5 trillion ask<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) is also set to attend the lunch, the person said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Pentagon policy official Elbridge Colby is set to meet with the Republican Study Committee Wednesday, according to a person granted anonymity to describe the plans. Colby is likely to address a massive new military funding request with the sprawling group of conservative lawmakers \u2014 a day after his boss, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, testified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566","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=22566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}