{"id":280936,"date":"2026-04-22T22:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:07:24","slug":"navy-secretary-john-phelan-leaving-immediately-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280936\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Secretary John Phelan leaving &#8216;immediately,&#8217; Pentagon says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">It&#8217;s unclear if Phelan is stepping down or has been asked to leave.<\/p>\n<p>ByLuis Martinez  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, April 22, 2026 10:01PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC News Live\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Secretary of the Navy John Phelan &#8220;is departing the administration, effective immediately,&#8221; the Pentagon&#8217;s top spokesman Sean Parnell said Wednesday. It&#8217;s not yet clear what prompted the announcement and whether Phelan is stepping down or has been asked to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s unclear if Phelan is stepping down or has been asked to leave. ByLuis Martinez Wednesday, April 22,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[120878,8986,112,114,113,974],"class_list":{"0":"post-280936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-120878","9":"tag-abc-news","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}