{"id":6752,"date":"2025-03-01T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-led-committee-launches-probe-to-root-out-political-hires-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:22:14","slug":"gop-led-committee-launches-probe-to-root-out-political-hires-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-led-committee-launches-probe-to-root-out-political-hires-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP-led committee launches probe to root out &#8216;political&#8217; hires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk move to fire broad swaths of the federal workforce, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is launching an investigation into who officials in the previous administration hired in the waning days of Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/28\/congress\/gop-led-committee-launches-probe-to-root-out-partisan-hires-00206764\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk move to fire broad swaths of the federal workforce, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is launching an investigation into who officials in the previous administration hired in the waning days of Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency&#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-6752","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\/6752","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=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}