{"id":134675,"date":"2019-12-30T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T11:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=134675"},"modified":"2019-12-30T16:09:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:09:38","slug":"public-debt-education-and-health-spending-is-96-5-of-2020-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/30\/public-debt-education-and-health-spending-is-96-5-of-2020-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Public debt, education and health spending is 96.5% of 2020 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Deuda-publica-El-Caribe-e1577722167469.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134683\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Education (Minerd) gets RD$194.5 billion, or more than 22% of the near-trillion peso budget for 2020. The budget allotment for Public Health is RD$94.5 billion. The Presidency will manage RD$67.55 billion in 2020. These three items comprise over 41% of the National Budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Medina administration has budgeted RD$167.1 billion (19.4% of the budget) for the administration of public debt and financial assets, and RD$68.7 billion for the administration of obligations of the National Treasury. These two items compose over 22% of the Executive Branch budget for 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Legislative Branch will receive RD$2.6 billion for the Senate and RD$5.2 billion for the Chamber of Deputies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Judicial Branch gets about 1% of the total budget at RD$8.62 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2019\/12\/26\/pe-gastara-el-96-5-del-presupuesto-2020\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elcaribe.com.do\/2019\/12\/28\/la-deuda-y-el-desafio-fiscal-de-2020\/\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education (Minerd) gets RD$194.5 billion, or more than 22% of the near-trillion peso budget for 2020. The budget allotment for Public Health is RD$94.5 billion. The Presidency will manage RD$67.55 billion in 2020. These three items comprise over 41% of the National Budget. The Medina administration has budgeted RD$167.1 billion (19.4% of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/30\/public-debt-education-and-health-spending-is-96-5-of-2020-budget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134675"}],"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=134675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134684,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134675\/revisions\/134684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}