{"id":414,"date":"2018-02-17T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2018-02-17T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:22:33","slug":"republicans-are-bankrupting-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are \u201cbankrupting the country\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"paul_ryan2.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/media\/images\/paul_ryan2.jpg\" alt=\"paul_ryan2.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" \/><strong>The Heritage Foundation, after touting the GOP tax plan, now says the GOP-led Congress is \u201cbankrupting the country\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conservative Heritage Foundation accused the Republican-controlled Congress of &#8220;bankrupting the country and robbing future generations of Americans to pay for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/373177-alarm-bells-are-ringing-on-the-federal-debt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed<\/a> for The Hill, The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Thomas Binion wrote that a &#8220;debt crisis, and all the terrible economic effects of that, are looming.&#8221; While he went on to claim that &#8220;both parties are guilty,&#8221; both chambers of Congress are controlled by Republicans and have been since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bipartisan Budget Act is 652 pages long. The bill increases spending by $386 billion over two years and nearly $1.5 trillion over 10 years. It also suspends the debt ceiling until after the next election.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Foundation, after touting the GOP tax plan, now says the GOP-led Congress is \u201cbankrupting the country\u201d The conservative Heritage Foundation accused the Republican-controlled Congress of &#8220;bankrupting the country and robbing future generations of Americans to pay for it.&#8221; In an op-ed for The Hill, The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Thomas Binion wrote that a &#8220;debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}