{"id":118825,"date":"2018-11-20T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=118825"},"modified":"2018-11-20T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:48:20","slug":"amendment-to-add-us8-billion-to-2019-national-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/20\/amendment-to-add-us8-billion-to-2019-national-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Amendment to add US$8 billion to 2019 National Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_118857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118857\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118857\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Amendment-to-2019-Budget-El-Dia-300x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: El Dia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Executive Branch has submitted to the National Congress an amendment to the 2019 National Budget that is being reviewed by a bilateral commission of senators and deputies. The increase would be for RD$7.97 billion. The funds would be used to cover an expected increase in the price of fuel, the electricity sector deficit (RD$5,67 billion) and the purchase of cars for the Santo Domingo Metro (RD$1.02 billion) and would also be used for jail programs under the Attorney General Office (RD$1.27 billion). Likewise, the Presidency has requested an additional allotment of RD$1 billion for the second skylift line that would be built at Los Alcarrizos, in northern Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/poder-ejecutivo-pide-aumento-del-presupuesto-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>20 November 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Branch has submitted to the National Congress an amendment to the 2019 National Budget that is being reviewed by a bilateral commission of senators and deputies. The increase would be for RD$7.97 billion. The funds would be used to cover an expected increase in the price of fuel, the electricity sector deficit (RD$5,67 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/20\/amendment-to-add-us8-billion-to-2019-national-budget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}