{"id":6654,"date":"2013-03-06T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2013-03-06T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:21:04","slug":"president-obama-gets-serious-about-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6654","title":{"rendered":"President Obama gets serious about the budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States has no budget since the beginning of his Presidency. \u00a0 The White House has its Office of Management and Budget which has the responsibility of proposing a budget to Congress, which is always ignored and replaced by what Congress wants to spend. That’s why people want to be in Congress after all.<\/p>\n

The position of head of the OMB has been vacant for over a year. President Obama has chosen a replacement.<\/p>\n

Real Clear Politics coverage<\/a><\/p>\n

The woman taking over the job has an excellent background for the job – she spent most of the past decade handing out money for the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. The purpose of the US Treasury is to hand out money after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States has no budget since the beginning of his Presidency. \u00a0 The White House has its Office of Management and Budget which has the responsibility of proposing a budget to Congress, which is always ignored and replaced by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-collapse-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6656,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}