{"id":18507,"date":"2025-10-24T01:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18507\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T01:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:25:12","slug":"trump-taps-texas-sen-brian-birdwell-for-assistant-secretary-of-defense-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18507\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell for assistant secretary of defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No description found   Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/about\/ethics\/#ai-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   AI policy  <\/a>  , and give us  <a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/appFeleeKVUN0Iytx\/pagPG40gbkU0EfjIr\/form\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   feedback  <\/a>  . <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">President Donald Trump this week nominated Texas Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.texastribune.org\/brian-birdwell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Birdwell<\/a> to serve as an assistant secretary of defense, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/10\/nomination-sent-to-the-senate-f090\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Granbury Republican currently oversees a Texas legislative committee that hears border and homeland security proposals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the move would be a return to the Pentagon for Birdwell, a six-term state senator who suffered severe burns when a plane crashed yards away from his office during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. At the time he worked at the time as Department of the Army staff. His 20-year career in the Army also included operational and training deployments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Birdwell announced in June that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/06\/30\/texas-senate-brian-birdwell-retiring-david-cook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">did not intend<\/a> to seek reelection to the Legislature\u2019s upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">2025 Texas Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No description found Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13079,145,287,1564,27,29,293,28,1863],"class_list":["post-18507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brian-birdwell","tag-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-state-government","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}