{"id":72990,"date":"2026-05-03T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/republicans-concerned-after-trump-threatens-to-withdraw-more-us-troops-from-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:57:33","slug":"republicans-concerned-after-trump-threatens-to-withdraw-more-us-troops-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/republicans-concerned-after-trump-threatens-to-withdraw-more-us-troops-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans \u2018concerned\u2019 after Trump threatens to withdraw more US troops from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US announced withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers last week after German chancellor said US was being \u2018humiliated\u2019 by Iran<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw more US troops from Germany after stunning European leaders and some senior members of his own party by last week announcing the withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers from Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The move left 30,000 US troops still in the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/01\/politics\/us-troop-withdrawal-germany-trump-merz\">according to CNN<\/a>. But Trump threatened on Saturday that more cuts were coming. \u201cWe are going to cut way down, and we\u2019re cutting a lot further than 5,000,\u201d he told reporters on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/03\/trump-threats-withdraw-troops-from-germany\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US announced withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers last week after German chancellor said US was being \u2018humiliated\u2019 by Iran Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw more US troops from Germany after stunning European leaders and some senior members of his own party by last week announcing the withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers from Germany. The move left &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans \u2018concerned\u2019 after Trump threatens to withdraw more US troops from Germany\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/republicans-concerned-after-trump-threatens-to-withdraw-more-us-troops-from-germany\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans \u2018concerned\u2019 after Trump threatens to withdraw more US troops from Germany\">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-72990","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\/72990","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=72990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}