{"id":594273,"date":"2026-04-30T23:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=594273"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:34:23","slug":"hegseth-backtracks-on-war-funding-estimates-at-senate-hearing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=594273","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth backtracks on war-funding estimates at Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that the conflict in Iran was seen by President Trump as a historic &#8220;opportunity&#8221; &#8212; and tap-danced away from his previous statements that he sought $200 billion in supplemental funding for the war.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/04\/30\/Pentagon_Congress_7151__s1440x958.jpg?490e662726d84b4409caff0ab65abb92b92af294\" title=\"Hegseth backtracks on war-funding estimates at Senate hearing\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that the conflict in Iran was seen by President Trump as a historic &#8220;opportunity&#8221; &#8212; and tap-danced away from his previous statements that he sought $200 billion in supplemental funding for the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/594250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}