{"id":22597,"date":"2026-05-13T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-in-the-hotseat\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:22:10","slug":"hegseth-in-the-hotseat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-in-the-hotseat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth in the hotseat"},"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  Hegseth in the hotseat House and Senate GOP lawmakers vented their frustrations with the Pentagon on Tuesday, using a pair of back-to-back hearings to grill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/defense-national-security\/5875068-hegseth-in-the-hotseat\/\" 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 Hegseth in the hotseat House and Senate GOP lawmakers vented their frustrations with the Pentagon on Tuesday, using a pair of back-to-back hearings to grill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22597","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\/22597","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=22597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}