{"id":776567,"date":"2026-07-21T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776567\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:20:08","slug":"hegseth-caine-appear-before-senate-as-iran-war-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776567\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth, Caine appear before Senate as Iran war escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RKSH3C7V5JCDBORJEQQZOQJP7E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is meeting Tuesday with members of the U.S. Senate, where he is expected to face bipartisan scrutiny over the Trump administration\u2019s escalating war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AVC3INTY5NGNHN5VLREFTN3TIE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/hearings\/a-review-of-the-presidents-supplemental-funding-request-of-june-24-2026\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/hearings\/a-review-of-the-presidents-supplemental-funding-request-of-june-24-2026\">hearing<\/a> before the Senate Appropriations Committee marks Congress\u2019s first public oversight of the administration\u2019s request for $67 billion in additional funding to cover the costs of the war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is meeting Tuesday with members of the U.S. Senate, where he is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776568,"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-776567","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\/776567","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=776567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}