{"id":24581,"date":"2025-01-14T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=24581"},"modified":"2025-01-14T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:01:29","slug":"breaking-hegseths-background-check-comes-back-unremarkable-delivering-setback-to-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=24581","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Hegseth\u2019s Background Check Comes Back \u2018Unremarkable,\u2019 Delivering Setback to Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Armed Services Committee Prepares for Pete Hegseth\u2019s Contentious Confirmation Hearing as Background Check Results Emerge The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to hold a highly anticipated confirmation hearing on Tuesday morning for Pete Hegseth, the veteran and former Fox News host nominated by President Trump to serve as Secretary of Defense. Hegseth\u2019s nomination has sparked intense debate, with Democrats raising concerns about his qualifications and past allegations of misconduct. However, a recently disclosed background check report, described as \u201cunremarkable,\u201d may bolster his chances of confirmation\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Armed Services Committee Prepares for Pete Hegseth\u2019s Contentious Confirmation Hearing as Background Check Results Emerge The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to hold a highly anticipated confirmation hearing on Tuesday morning for Pete Hegseth, the veteran and former Fox News host nominated by President Trump to serve as Secretary of Defense. Hegseth\u2019s nomination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24582,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24581\/revisions\/24582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}