{"id":601944,"date":"2026-04-23T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601944\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:56:07","slug":"john-phelan-out-as-navy-secretary-after-13-months-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601944\/","title":{"rendered":"John Phelan out as Navy secretary after 13 months, Pentagon says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PDWOEDWQTBGSJKRWILGCKBZRGA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Navy Secretary John Phelan will depart the Trump administration \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d officials said Wednesday evening, an abrupt exit after 13 tumultuous months at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"USVFRS672BA67LQQOJBUUSCWLU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Sean Parnell, a spokesman for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2047064432564482188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> the news on social media, saying that Hegseth and Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wished Phelan well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Navy Secretary John Phelan will depart the Trump administration \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d officials said Wednesday evening, an abrupt exit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-601944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}