{"id":136210,"date":"2020-02-11T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=136210"},"modified":"2020-02-11T23:08:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T23:08:43","slug":"senate-spends-a-lot-of-our-money-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/11\/senate-spends-a-lot-of-our-money-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate spends a lot of our money in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Senate-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Senate-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Senate-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 32 senators in the Dominican Republic, one for each of 31 provinces and another for the National District. The National Budget set aside RD$2.53 billion for the senators. Diario Libre reports that in just the first half of 2019, the legislators spent RD$2.2 billion of the total allotment, or 89%. The expenditures for the second half of the year are not disclosed on the Senate website. The senators spent RD$46 million on food and drinks for the first half of the year. The legislators received RD$25 million for fuel expenditures and RD$60 million for a chapter labeled as \u201cother rentals.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/senado-gasto-rd-2-mil-261-millones-durante-el-primer-semestre-de-2019-LL16957963\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 February 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 32 senators in the Dominican Republic, one for each of 31 provinces and another for the National District. The National Budget set aside RD$2.53 billion for the senators. Diario Libre reports that in just the first half of 2019, the legislators spent RD$2.2 billion of the total allotment, or 89%. The expenditures for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/11\/senate-spends-a-lot-of-our-money-in-2019\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136210"}],"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=136210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136244,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136210\/revisions\/136244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}