{"id":8669,"date":"2025-04-30T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-join-republicans-to-boost-defense-spending-in-trump-agenda-bill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:22:07","slug":"dems-join-republicans-to-boost-defense-spending-in-trump-agenda-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-join-republicans-to-boost-defense-spending-in-trump-agenda-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems join Republicans to boost defense spending in Trump agenda bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Armed Services Committee advanced its $150 billion portion of Republicans&#8217; megabill on Tuesday with the support of several Democrats, even as most lambasted it as a &#8220;blank check&#8221; for a Pentagon in chaos and a defense chief who can&rsquo;t be trusted. The 35-21 committee vote came after Republicans thwarted more than 20 Democrat amendments aimed at gutting key funding provisions and highlighting complaints about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8217;s leadership&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/29\/congress\/dems-join-gop-to-boost-defense-spending-00317618\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Armed Services Committee advanced its $150 billion portion of Republicans&#8217; megabill on Tuesday with the support of several Democrats, even as most lambasted it as a &#8220;blank check&#8221; for a Pentagon in chaos and a defense chief who can&rsquo;t be trusted. The 35-21 committee vote came after Republicans thwarted more than 20 Democrat [&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-8669","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\/8669","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=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}