{"id":8457,"date":"2025-04-22T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-hegseth-defends-signal-use-on-fox-and-friends-imf-slashes-us-growth-forecast\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:20:26","slug":"live-updates-hegseth-defends-signal-use-on-fox-and-friends-imf-slashes-us-growth-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-hegseth-defends-signal-use-on-fox-and-friends-imf-slashes-us-growth-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Hegseth defends Signal use on &#8216;Fox and Friends&#8217;; IMF slashes US growth forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on &#8220;Fox and Friends&#8221; Tuesday morning to defend himself after reports revealed he shared information in a second Signal group chat with family members and his personal lawyer. The Defense chief was thrust back into the spotlight following a report from The New York Times on Sunday that he shared attack plans in a&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/trumps-first-100-days\/5260485-trump-pete-hegseth-imf-supreme-court\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on &#8220;Fox and Friends&#8221; Tuesday morning to defend himself after reports revealed he shared information in a second Signal group chat with family members and his personal lawyer. The Defense chief was thrust back into the spotlight following a report from The New York Times on Sunday that he shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457","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=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}