{"id":71855,"date":"2026-04-16T05:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/scrutiny-of-hegseth-mounts-as-democrats-attempt-to-rein-in-trump-administration-over-iran-war-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:56:45","slug":"scrutiny-of-hegseth-mounts-as-democrats-attempt-to-rein-in-trump-administration-over-iran-war-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/scrutiny-of-hegseth-mounts-as-democrats-attempt-to-rein-in-trump-administration-over-iran-war-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrutiny of Hegseth mounts as Democrats attempt to rein in Trump administration over Iran war \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats file impeachment articles against Trump\u2019s defense secretary as Senate Democrats fail to pass measures to check White House power over Iran war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is due to hold a press conference later this morning, in which he expected to update the media on the US-Iran peace talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is due to begin at 8am ET and you can expect journalists to ask him about the impeachment attempt against him as well.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/16\/pete-hegseth-trump-democrats-iran-war-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats file impeachment articles against Trump\u2019s defense secretary as Senate Democrats fail to pass measures to check White House power over Iran war Sign up for the Breaking News US email Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is due to hold a press conference later this morning, in which he expected to update the media on &#8230; <a title=\"Scrutiny of Hegseth mounts as Democrats attempt to rein in Trump administration over Iran war \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/scrutiny-of-hegseth-mounts-as-democrats-attempt-to-rein-in-trump-administration-over-iran-war-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Scrutiny of Hegseth mounts as Democrats attempt to rein in Trump administration over Iran war \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-71855","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\/71855","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=71855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}