{"id":8126,"date":"2025-04-09T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/political-pettiness-jd-vance-slaps-mitch-mcconnell-over-dod-vote-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:30","slug":"political-pettiness-jd-vance-slaps-mitch-mcconnell-over-dod-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/political-pettiness-jd-vance-slaps-mitch-mcconnell-over-dod-vote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Political pettiness\u2019: JD Vance slaps Mitch McConnell over DOD vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance castigated Sen. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday over the former GOP leader&rsquo;s opposition to a key Pentagon nominee &mdash; an unusual swipe at a prominent member of Vance&rsquo;s own party and his former colleague. Vance lashed out shortly after McConnell cast the only Republican vote against President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick of Elbridge Colby to be the Defense Department&rsquo;s policy chief&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/08\/congress\/jd-vance-vs-mitch-mcconnell-00279179\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance castigated Sen. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday over the former GOP leader&rsquo;s opposition to a key Pentagon nominee &mdash; an unusual swipe at a prominent member of Vance&rsquo;s own party and his former colleague. Vance lashed out shortly after McConnell cast the only Republican vote against President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick of Elbridge [&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-8126","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\/8126","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=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}