{"id":5462,"date":"2011-04-11T15:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2011-04-11T15:25:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:25:42","slug":"pres-obama-signs-short-term-bill-staving-off-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5462","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Signs Short-Term Bill Staving  Off Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> has signed a short-term spending bill to pay for federal operations through Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The measure is the first piece of a historic agreement to cut billions in spending and avoid the first government shutdown in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama<\/strong> signed the temporary extension in private Saturday and the White House announced it with a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The measure was needed to keep the government open long enough for Congress to sign off on the budget deal reached just before the midnight deadline Friday by <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong>, Republican House Speaker <strong>John Boehner<\/strong> and Democratic Senate Majority Leader <strong>Harry Reid<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That deal keeps the government open through the remaining six months in the 2011 budget year, while cutting $38 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama has signed a short-term spending bill to pay for federal operations through Friday. The measure is the first piece of a historic agreement to cut billions in spending and avoid the first government shutdown in 15 years. Obama signed the temporary extension in private Saturday and the White House announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}