{"id":45122,"date":"2025-11-26T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:20:07","slug":"fbi-investigating-pa-lawmakers-who-urged-troops-to-disobey-illegal-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45122\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI investigating Pa. lawmakers who urged troops to disobey illegal orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The FBI requested interviews Monday with six congressmembers who appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2558895077819811\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Nov. 18 video<\/a> suggesting that military service members ignore unlawful orders.\n<\/p>\n<p>All six Democratic lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Chester, and U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Allegheny, are military veterans.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crow.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/joint-statement-in-response-to-fbi-inquiry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a joint statement<\/a> released Tuesday, the members of Congress accused President Donald Trump of \u201cusing the FBI as a tool to intimidate and harass Members of Congress.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States,\u201d the lawmakers said. \u201cThat oath lasts a lifetime, and we intend to keep it. We will not be bullied. We will never give up the ship.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2558895077819811\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">original video<\/a> urged members of the military and the intelligence community to defend the threats to the Constitution not only from abroad, but \u201cfrom right here at home.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers blamed the Trump administration for \u201cpitting\u201d active service members against the American public.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must refuse illegal orders,\u201d Deluzio said in the video.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17670,3635,28,30,29,724],"class_list":["post-45122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chrissy-houlahan","tag-fbi","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-trump-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}