{"id":11252,"date":"2009-02-14T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_hails_bail_out_milestone\/"},"modified":"2009-02-14T19:53:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T19:53:16","slug":"obama_hails_bail_out_milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11252","title":{"rendered":"Obama hails bail-out &#39;milestone&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has welcomed Congress&#8217;s approval of his $787bn (\u00c2\u00a3548bn) economic stimulus package.<\/p>\n<p>He described it as a &#8220;historic step&#8221; and &#8220;major milestone on our road to recovery&#8221;, and is expected to sign the bill into law early next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate approved the measure with just three Republican votes, hours after the House of Representatives backed it without Republican support.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama has said the plan will &#8220;save or create more than 3.5 million jobs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans argue the tax cuts are insufficient, and that the economy will be saddled with debt for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7890218.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has welcomed Congress&#8217;s approval of his $787bn (\u00c2\u00a3548bn) economic stimulus package. He described it as a &#8220;historic step&#8221; and &#8220;major milestone on our road to recovery&#8221;, and is expected to sign the bill into law early<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11252\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,616,151,667,596,601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-fiscal-stimulus-package-of-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}