{"id":8729,"date":"2011-02-19T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2011-02-19T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T00:38:13","slug":"house-gop-gets-60-of-its-100-billion-loaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8729\/house-gop-gets-60-of-its-100-billion-loaf\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Gets 60% of its $100 Billion Loaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After originally <a href=\"http:\/\/pledge.gop.gov\/resources\/library\/documents\/solutions\/pledge-pocket-card.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pledging to cut $100 billion<\/a> in spending this year the House GOP leadership settled for a cut of $30 billion.\u00a0 Then, the Tea Party-backed freshman caucus weighed in and forced a rethink.\u00a0 Early this morning, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41660795\/ns\/politics-capitol_hill\/\" target=\"_blank\">House voted to cut $60 billion<\/a> in this year\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s real, measureable progress.\u00a0 Getting 60% of a loaf may not satisfy everyone\u2019s hunger for budget cuts, but it is still a victory for fiscal conservatives.\u00a0 Well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After originally pledging to cut $100 billion in spending this year the House GOP leadership settled for a cut of $30 billion.\u00a0 Then, the Tea Party-backed freshman caucus weighed in and forced a rethink.\u00a0 Early this morning, the House voted to cut $60 billion in this year\u2019s budget. That\u2019s real, measureable progress.\u00a0 Getting 60% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,2402,59,1097,2154,1057,28],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-cut","tag-deficit","tag-fiscal-conservative","tag-house-gop","tag-john-boehner","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8731,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/8731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}