{"id":30849,"date":"2012-02-14T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_obamas_budget_government_still_getting_bigger\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:30:23","slug":"ap_obamas_budget_government_still_getting_bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30849","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Obama&#39;s budget: Government still getting bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Pentagon and a number of Cabinet agencies would get squeezed, Obama would leave the spiraling growth of health care programs for the elderly and the poor largely unchecked. The plan claims $4 trillion in deficit savings over the coming decade, but most of it would be through tax increases Republicans oppose, lower war costs already in motion and budget cuts enacted last year in a debt pact with GOP lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/02\/13\/v-fullstory\/2639737\/obamas-new-budget-higher-taxes.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30849\">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":[40,670,149,168,616,151,667,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30849","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=30849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}