{"id":2676,"date":"2024-11-20T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maga-world-is-thrilled-with-hegseth-pick-republican-senators-have-questions-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:34:15","slug":"maga-world-is-thrilled-with-hegseth-pick-republican-senators-have-questions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maga-world-is-thrilled-with-hegseth-pick-republican-senators-have-questions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA world is thrilled with Hegseth pick. Republican senators have questions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend of brutal headlines disclosing sexual assault allegations against Pete Hegseth, Senate Republicans are offering a tepid defense of Donald Trump&#8217;s pick to lead the Pentagon. Republicans have downplayed and deflected when asked about Hegseth &mdash; arguing Trump picked an outsider to shake up the Pentagon bureaucracy or that the confirmation process should play out&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/19\/congress\/gop-senators-not-sold-on-hegseth-00190514\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend of brutal headlines disclosing sexual assault allegations against Pete Hegseth, Senate Republicans are offering a tepid defense of Donald Trump&#8217;s pick to lead the Pentagon. Republicans have downplayed and deflected when asked about Hegseth &mdash; arguing Trump picked an outsider to shake up the Pentagon bureaucracy or that the confirmation process should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","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=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}