{"id":5643,"date":"2011-04-14T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2011-04-14T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:35:35","slug":"president-barack-obama-prevents-budget-cuts-to-favorite-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5643","title":{"rendered":"President Barack Obama Prevents Budget Cuts To  Favorite Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A close look at the government shutdown-dodging agreement to cut federal spending by $38 billion reveals that lawmakers significantly eased the fiscal pain by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of hand and going after programs <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> had targeted anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Such moves permitted <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> to save favorite programs \u2014 Pell grants for poor college students, health research and &#8220;Race to the Top&#8221; aid for public schools, among others \u2014 from Republican knives.<\/p>\n<p>And big holes in foreign aid and Environmental Protection Agency accounts were patched in large part. Republicans also gave up politically treacherous cuts to the Agriculture Department&#8217;s food inspection program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A close look at the government shutdown-dodging agreement to cut federal spending by $38 billion reveals that lawmakers significantly eased the fiscal pain by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of hand and going after programs President Barack Obama had targeted anyway. Such moves permitted Pres. Obama to save [&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-5643","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\/5643","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=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}