{"id":21972,"date":"2025-03-15T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T19:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=21972"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:33:41","slug":"merkley-to-trump-nominee-are-you-an-advocate-for-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-to-trump-nominee-are-you-an-advocate-for-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley to Trump Nominee: \u201cAre you an advocate for free speech?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Merkley to Trump Nominee: \u201cAre you an advocate for free speech?\u201d\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_hHaQfrdPaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Merkley pressed Trump\u2019s nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, on the issue of free speech during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as the Trump Administration currently detains and threatens to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a legal immigrant.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Merkley pressed Trump\u2019s nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, on the issue of free speech during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as the Trump Administration currently detains and threatens to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a legal immigrant.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-21972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-foreign-policy-and-national-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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