{"id":148609,"date":"2020-10-20T07:06:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T11:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=148609"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:46:21","slug":"complaints-pile-up-on-the-little-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/10\/20\/complaints-pile-up-on-the-little-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Complaints pile up on the &#8220;little barrel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Diputados-El-Dia-e1603201520409.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148647\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No questions asked. It&#8217;s as simple as that. Senators and deputies get a free hand in deciding who to favor, or how much to distribute of their monthly allotments with RD$691 million a month in taxpayer money. As reported in El Dia, the senators will receive RD$461 million for their &#8220;little barrels,&#8221; and the deputies RD$230.6 million for similar reasons. The legislators handle an extra RD$691 million without delivering receipts or account for how they spend the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funds were created so that all the legislators could &#8220;assist&#8221; their constituents in their needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two senators have resigned from being part of the slush funds. In the case of the senators, the funds go from RD$600,000 to RD$1 million extra a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/crisis-generada-por-covid-19-compromete-uso-del-barrilito\/\">El Dia<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 October 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No questions asked. It&#8217;s as simple as that. Senators and deputies get a free hand in deciding who to favor, or how much to distribute of their monthly allotments with RD$691 million a month in taxpayer money. As reported in El Dia, the senators will receive RD$461 million for their &#8220;little barrels,&#8221; and the deputies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/10\/20\/complaints-pile-up-on-the-little-barrel\/\" 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\/148609"}],"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=148609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148649,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148609\/revisions\/148649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}