{"id":3206,"date":"2026-07-24T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:56:52","slug":"uri-psc-professor-peter-mclaughlin-interviewed-in-fortune-story-on-defense-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/2026\/07\/24\/uri-psc-professor-peter-mclaughlin-interviewed-in-fortune-story-on-defense-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"URI PSC professor Peter McLaughlin interviewed in Fortune story on defense spending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>URI Political Science Assistant Professor Peter McLaughlin, an expert on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/2026\/06\/01\/professor-mclaughlin-studies-congressional-spending-and-representation\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/2026\/06\/01\/professor-mclaughlin-studies-congressional-spending-and-representation\/\">congressional spending and representation<\/a>, was interviewed by <em>Fortune <\/em>in\u00a0a recent article: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/07\/13\/lindsey-graham-mitch-mcconnell-senate-defense-spending-budget-bill-in-jeopardy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/06\/26\/quakes-give-us-opportunity-transform-venezuela-foe-friend\">McConnell\u2019s absence could jeopardize Republicans\u2019 defense spending agenda as the Iran war escalates<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McLaughlin highlighted the current challenges facing Republicans in Congress as they attempt to pass new legislation on defense spending: &#8220;It\u2019s a very tricky situation right now because you\u2019re dealing with upcoming midterm elections, a war where there is disagreement within the party over it, and a big funding package that\u2019s going to require pretty much partisan unity on the side of Republicans,&#8221; McLaughlin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor McLaughlin was quoted in Fortune on recent developments in the US Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":2704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}