{"id":2602079,"date":"2026-05-13T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-energy-secretary-chris-wright-testifies-to-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:34:57","slug":"watch-live-energy-secretary-chris-wright-testifies-to-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-energy-secretary-chris-wright-testifies-to-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH LIVE: Energy Secretary Chris Wright testifies to Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-live-energy-secretary-chris-wright-testifies-to-senate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2602079&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Energy Secretary Chris Wright is scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee ahead of the 2027 Defense Authorization Request. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-target-cable-providers-for-carrying-fox-newsmax-oann\/\" title=\"Democrats Target Cable Providers for Carrying Fox, Newsmax, OANN\">hearing begins<\/a> at 9:30 a.m., and his remarks will focus on the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nuclear-threat-advantage\/\" title=\"The Nuclear Threat Advantage\">atomic energy defense<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >nuclear security program<\/a>. The article also notes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-hit-by-massive-cyber-attack-of-nightmare-proportions-us-in-grave-grave-danger-cyber-expert-morgan-wright-reveals-frightening-extent-of-late\/\" title=\"\u201cUS Hit By Massive Cyber Attack Of \u2018NIGHTMARE PROPORTIONS... \u2013 US in Grave, Grave Danger!\u201d \u2014 Cyber Expert Morgan Wright Reveals Frightening Extent of Latest Cyber Attack (VIDEO)\">wright<\/a> has recently been in the news for rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economists-bidens-policies-to-lift-oil-and-gas-prices-hurt-u-s-households\/\" title=\"Economists: Biden...s policies to lift oil and gas prices, hurt U.S. households\">gas prices<\/a> related to the war with Iran, saying in an NBC interview that the U.S. is in a \u201ctremendous position\u201d but he doesn\u2019t know how gas prices will change.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-energy\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2787\">Energy<\/a> Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chris-wright\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11768\">Chris Wright<\/a> is testifying in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee ahead of the 2027 Defense Authorization Request.<\/p>\n<p>His hearing is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4566025\/schumer-bill-senators-pay-government-shutdowns\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Schumer pledges to support bill to dock senators\u2019 pay during shutdowns<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4564812\/thune-blesses-push-block-senator-pay-government-shutdown\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Thune blesses push to block senator pay during government shutdowns<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4564207\/watch-live-kash-patel-testifies-fbi-budget-request\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>WATCH LIVE: Kash Patel testifies on FBI budget request<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Wright\u2019s testimony will focus on the U.S. atomic energy defense and nuclear security program. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>He\u2019s mostly been in the news lately over rising gas prices due to the war with Iran. In a Sunday interview with NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Wright said the U.S. was in a \u201ctremendous position,\u201d but that he doesn\u2019t \u201cknow the future of gas prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Secretary Chris Wright testifies before Senate Armed Services on 2027 defense request; starts 9:30 a.m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2602080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/042126_WEX_CHRIS_WRIGHT-34-e1776786729791.jpg?w=683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4486,70811,4133,5894,3740],"class_list":["post-2602079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-energy","tag-live-stream-2","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/042126_WEX_CHRIS_WRIGHT-34-e1776786729791.jpg?w=683","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602083,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602079\/revisions\/2602083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}