{"id":454,"date":"2024-11-11T07:47:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/house-armed-services-chair-in-the-mix-for-trumps-pentagon-chief-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:29:48","slug":"house-armed-services-chair-in-the-mix-for-trumps-pentagon-chief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-armed-services-chair-in-the-mix-for-trumps-pentagon-chief-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House Armed Services chair in the mix for Trump&#8217;s Pentagon chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers is under consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s Defense secretary, according to three people familiar with the deliberations.<br \/>\nRogers, a conservative Alabama Republican and among the most strident of defense hawks in the House, would be a dark horse in a field of potential Trump Pentagon picks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/08\/congress\/donald-trump-defense-secretary-mike-rogers-00188564\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers is under consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s Defense secretary, according to three people familiar with the deliberations. Rogers, a conservative Alabama Republican and among the most strident of defense hawks in the House, would be a dark horse in a field of potential Trump Pentagon picks&#8230;Read More<\/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-454","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\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}