{"id":301506,"date":"2026-08-26T18:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=301506"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:37:25","slug":"the-hegseth-budget-defense-secretarys-1-5tn-ask-reveals-military-industrial-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=301506","title":{"rendered":"The Hegseth budget: defense secretary\u2019s $1.5tn ask reveals military-industrial chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon head proposed a 44% increase \u2013 to second world war levels \u2013 while \u2018woke\u2019 programs are guttedUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesWhen the \u2018\u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d was raging unchecked through the federal government in February 2025, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered his subordinates to find cuts of 8% a year for the next five years&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/23\/hegseth-us-military-budget\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon head proposed a 44% increase \u2013 to second world war levels \u2013 while \u2018woke\u2019 programs are guttedUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesWhen the \u2018\u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d was raging unchecked through the federal government in February 2025, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered his subordinates to find cuts of 8% a year&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301506"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=301506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}