{"id":36632,"date":"2025-03-21T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/musk-to-visit-pentagon-amid-reports-of-briefing-on-potential-war-with-china-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:22:12","slug":"musk-to-visit-pentagon-amid-reports-of-briefing-on-potential-war-with-china-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/musk-to-visit-pentagon-amid-reports-of-briefing-on-potential-war-with-china-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk to visit Pentagon amid reports of briefing on potential war with China \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump and Hegseth deny NYT report that ally due to be briefed on US military\u2019s plan for any war that might break out with China<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Tempe on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez praised Arizona voters for electing two Democratic senators. She then swiped at the state\u2019s former one-term senator, Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic party to become an independent while in office and declined to seek re-election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> \u201cOne thing I love about Arizonans is that you all have shown that if a US Senator isn\u2019t fighting hard enough for you, you\u2019re not afraid to replace her with one who will,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n<p> Sinema recently resurfaced old comments by Ocasio-Cortez attacking the then-senator over her refusal to abolish the filibuster, a Senate rule requiring 60 votes to pass most legislation. Last week, House Democrats implored their Senate counterparts to use the filibuster to block a Republican-drafted funding bill.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cChange of heart on the filibuster I see!\u201d Sinema posted.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cStill no. In fact, the same Dems who argue to keep the filibuster \u2018for when we need it\u2019 do not, in fact, use it when we need it,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez shot back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At their rally in Arizona, senator Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offered a sharp critique of the Democrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/21\/donald-trump-education-executive-order-elon-musk-pentagon-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump and Hegseth deny NYT report that ally due to be briefed on US military\u2019s plan for any war that might break out with China In Tempe on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez praised Arizona voters for electing two Democratic senators. She then swiped at the state\u2019s former one-term senator, Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic party to &#8230; <a title=\"Musk to visit Pentagon amid reports of briefing on potential war with China \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/musk-to-visit-pentagon-amid-reports-of-briefing-on-potential-war-with-china-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Musk to visit Pentagon amid reports of briefing on potential war with China \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}