{"id":909521,"date":"2026-05-31T13:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/pete-hegseth-fires-u-s-navy-secretary-john-phelan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:14:04","slug":"pete-hegseth-fires-u-s-navy-secretary-john-phelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/pete-hegseth-fires-u-s-navy-secretary-john-phelan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth fires U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Navy Secretary John Phelan. The Pentagon framed it Wednesday as an immediate departure.Why it matters: The ouster of the service&#8217;s top civilian caught many off-guard, and adds to the pile of military officials who either abruptly exited or were pushed out of their posts under Trump 2.0.&#8221;Phelan didn&#8217;t understand he wasn&#8217;t the boss&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/22\/navy-secretary-john-phelan-hung-cao\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Colin Demarest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Navy Secretary John Phelan. The Pentagon framed it Wednesday as an immediate departure.Why it matters: The ouster of the service&#8217;s top civilian caught many off-guard, and adds to the pile of military officials who either abruptly exited or were pushed out of their posts under Trump 2.0.&#8221;Phelan didn&#8217;t understand he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1880,139968,192],"tags":[5506,139967],"class_list":["post-909521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fires","category-hegseth","category-sports","tag-fires","tag-hegseth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}