{"id":4895,"date":"2025-01-15T00:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/joni-ernst-says-shell-vote-to-confirm-pete-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T00:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:18:43","slug":"joni-ernst-says-shell-vote-to-confirm-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/joni-ernst-says-shell-vote-to-confirm-pete-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Ernst says she\u2019ll vote to confirm Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pete Hegseth has won over Sen. Joni Ernst.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa senator said Tuesday she will be voting to confirm Hegseth to the next Defense secretary, a crucial endorsement for a nomination that seemed to be on shaky ground a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ernst told an Iowa radio show that said the former Fox News host was able to adequately answer all her questions during his confirmation hearing before the Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe pointed out the woke issues at the Pentagon and I think we\u2019re at a point where now we can start moving forward. People know where he stands on these issues,\u201d Ernst said. \u201cI will be supporting President Trump\u2019s pick for secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ernst \u2014 a combat veteran and sexual assault survivor \u2014 was considered a pivotal vote after she raised concerns over Hegseth\u2019s past comments saying women should not be able to serve in combat, as well as several allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>At his confirmation hearing, Hegseth walked back his past remarks on women in the military, telling Ernst that \u201cwomen will have access to ground combat roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth has won over Sen. Joni Ernst. The Iowa senator said Tuesday she will be voting to confirm Hegseth to the next Defense secretary, a crucial endorsement for a nomination that seemed to be on shaky ground a few weeks ago. Ernst told an Iowa radio show that said the former Fox News host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","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=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}