{"id":22662,"date":"2026-05-14T02:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-confronts-new-questions-about-us-stockpiles-iran-firepower\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:20:19","slug":"congress-confronts-new-questions-about-us-stockpiles-iran-firepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-confronts-new-questions-about-us-stockpiles-iran-firepower\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress confronts new questions about US stockpiles, Iran firepower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&rsquo;s appearance before House and Senate appropriators on Tuesday hasn&rsquo;t settled the debate in Congress over two mounting questions about the Iran war: whether U.S. stockpiles are dangerously low and how much firepower Tehran maintains. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday remained dubious of Hegseth&rsquo;s claims that the U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5877148-us-iran-war-munitions-stockpiles\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&rsquo;s appearance before House and Senate appropriators on Tuesday hasn&rsquo;t settled the debate in Congress over two mounting questions about the Iran war: whether U.S. stockpiles are dangerously low and how much firepower Tehran maintains. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday remained dubious of Hegseth&rsquo;s claims that the U.S&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22662","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\/22662","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=22662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}