{"id":8128,"date":"2025-04-09T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-trumps-controversial-pick-for-pentagon-policy-chief-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:28","slug":"senate-confirms-trumps-controversial-pick-for-pentagon-policy-chief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-trumps-controversial-pick-for-pentagon-policy-chief-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Trump\u2019s controversial pick for Pentagon policy chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump&#8217;s controversial pick for Pentagon policy chief, a win for the increasingly vocal wing of the GOP that wants the U.S. to focus on China rather than Europe and the Middle East. Colby&#8217;s contentious nomination highlighted a foreign policy rift inside the Republican party&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/08\/congress\/elbridge-colby-pentagon-confirmed-00278750\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump&#8217;s controversial pick for Pentagon policy chief, a win for the increasingly vocal wing of the GOP that wants the U.S. to focus on China rather than Europe and the Middle East. Colby&#8217;s contentious nomination highlighted a foreign policy rift inside the Republican party&#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-8128","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\/8128","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=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}