{"id":21264,"date":"2008-11-28T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/budget-at-rd329billion\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T01:43:56","slug":"budget-at-rd329billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/11\/28\/budget-at-rd329billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget at RD$329billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Leonel Fernandez has sent the RD$329 billion National Budget for 2009 to Congress. Listin Diario makes the observation that while in previous years a commission of officials from the government economic team would deliver the bill, this year a messenger was dispatched from the Presidency to deliver the bill to the secretary of the Senate.<br \/>\n On 20 November, Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa said that government department allotments would be at the same level as last year. An additional RD$29 billion will cover wage and pension increases that were approved in mid 2008 and were covered by surplus taxes collected by the government in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Leonel Fernandez has sent the RD$329 billion National Budget for 2009 to Congress. Listin Diario makes the observation that while in previous years a commission of officials from the government economic team would deliver the bill, this year a messenger was dispatched from the Presidency to deliver the bill to the secretary of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/11\/28\/budget-at-rd329billion\/\" 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":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264"}],"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=21264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}