{"id":76368,"date":"2026-07-21T16:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/pentagon-leadership-testifies-on-war-funding-as-trump-says-he-has-no-interest-in-iran-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:56:23","slug":"pentagon-leadership-testifies-on-war-funding-as-trump-says-he-has-no-interest-in-iran-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/pentagon-leadership-testifies-on-war-funding-as-trump-says-he-has-no-interest-in-iran-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon leadership testifies on war funding as Trump says he has \u2018no interest\u2019 in Iran talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With no end to the fighting in sight, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testify on the administration\u2019s $88 billion supplemental funding request as President Trump threatens more military action on Iran. NBC News correspondents Monica Alba, Ryan Nobles, and Courtney Kube join Meet the Press NOW to discuss the likelihood of getting Congress to approve the supplemental funding and concerns over the lack of transparency from the Pentagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no end to the fighting in sight, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testify on the administration\u2019s $88 billion supplemental funding request as President Trump threatens more military action on Iran. NBC News correspondents Monica Alba, Ryan Nobles, and Courtney Kube join Meet the Press &#8230; <a title=\"Pentagon leadership testifies on war funding as Trump says he has \u2018no interest\u2019 in Iran talks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/pentagon-leadership-testifies-on-war-funding-as-trump-says-he-has-no-interest-in-iran-talks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pentagon leadership testifies on war funding as Trump says he has \u2018no interest\u2019 in Iran talks\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76368","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\/76368","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=76368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}