{"id":120502,"date":"2018-12-20T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T10:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=120502"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T11:57:32","slug":"senate-passes-bill-for-rd190-billion-more-in-borrowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/senate-passes-bill-for-rd190-billion-more-in-borrowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes bill for RD$190 billion more in borrowing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Senate-190-mm-budget-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120545\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Senate-190-mm-budget-Diario-Libre.jpg 524w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Senate-190-mm-budget-Diario-Libre-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In its last session before the Christmas holiday break, the ruling PLD majority Senate passed an authorization for the placement of RD$190 billion in loans to meet the deficit of the 2019 National Budget. The request had been received from the Presidency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same session, the senators approved a US$300 million contingency loan from the Inter American Development Bank for emergency situations and disaster mitigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senators also ratified the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) signed with the US government on 15 September 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/senado-autoriza-colocacion-de-bonos-por-190-mil-millones-de-pesos\/\">Noticias&nbsp;SIN<\/a><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/ciudad\/senado-aprueba-bonos-por-mas-de-rd-190-090-millones-y-prestamos-por-us-300-millones-con-el-bid-MB11673609\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 December 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its last session before the Christmas holiday break, the ruling PLD majority Senate passed an authorization for the placement of RD$190 billion in loans to meet the deficit of the 2019 National Budget. The request had been received from the Presidency. In the same session, the senators approved a US$300 million contingency loan from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/senate-passes-bill-for-rd190-billion-more-in-borrowing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120502"}],"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=120502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120546,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120502\/revisions\/120546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}