{"id":620429,"date":"2026-05-03T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620429\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:14:07","slug":"hegseth-forges-ahead-at-pentagon-defiant-and-more-confident-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620429\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth forges ahead at Pentagon, defiant and more confident than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TM3A5JOSEJFFTGO3UQG3TE6CVA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In the days before his abrupt dismissal, Navy Secretary John Phelan had grievances to air.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VCM7OIB7IFEY7AJ6JCGKEEGKPU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The billionaire campaign contributor \u2014 and friend of President Donald Trump \u2014 had sought out lawmakers on Capitol Hill, troubled by what he saw as a \u201cland grab\u201d by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon\u2019s No. 2 political appointee, Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, according to people familiar with the matter. Hegseth and Feinberg, Phelan said, had imposed rigid control over submarine and shipbuilding decisions, effectively usurping the Navy\u2019s authority, these people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the days before his abrupt dismissal, Navy Secretary John Phelan had grievances to air. The billionaire campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-620429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620429","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=620429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}