{"id":23203,"date":"2026-05-24T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-hegseth-makes-noem-look-like-five-star-recruit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:22:17","slug":"tillis-hegseth-makes-noem-look-like-five-star-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-hegseth-makes-noem-look-like-five-star-recruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillis: Hegseth makes Noem look like &#8216;five-star recruit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Sunday slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, comparing him unfavorably to former Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem, who was dismissed earlier this year by President Trump. Tillis, who is retiring at the end of this Congress, criticized Hegseth&#8217;s handling of the Iran war&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5893252-tillis-slams-hegseth-defense\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Sunday slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, comparing him unfavorably to former Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem, who was dismissed earlier this year by President Trump. Tillis, who is retiring at the end of this Congress, criticized Hegseth&#8217;s handling of the Iran war&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23203","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\/23203","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=23203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}