{"id":219952,"date":"2024-07-18T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=219952"},"modified":"2024-07-18T10:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:39:35","slug":"president-of-the-senate-says-senators-to-decide-on-slush-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/07\/18\/president-of-the-senate-says-senators-to-decide-on-slush-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"President of the Senate says it is up to the senators to decide on slush fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ricardo-de-los-Santos-Noticias-SIN-1024x579.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219998\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ricardo-de-los-Santos-Noticias-SIN-1024x579.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ricardo-de-los-Santos-Noticias-SIN-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ricardo-de-los-Santos-Noticias-SIN-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ricardo-de-los-Santos-Noticias-SIN-1536x868.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ricardo-de-los-Santos-Noticias-SIN-2048x1158.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the Senate, Ricardo de los Santos (PRM-Sanchez Ramirez) says the extra pay the senators receive for use at their discretion, better known as the \u201cbarrilito,\u201d could be eliminated if the Senate decides so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remark came after El Informe, the investigative report by journalist Alicia Ortega, reminded tax payers of the wasteful spending nature of these funds that mostly serve for political patronage of the incumbents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a previewlistener=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/ricardo-de-los-santos-estaria-de-acuerdo-que-se-quite-barrilito-si-el-cuerpo-del-senado-lo-decide-1682603\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2024\/07\/16\/revelan-el-uso-irregular-de-fondos-asignados-al-senado\/2788951\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 July 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Senate, Ricardo de los Santos (PRM-Sanchez Ramirez) says the extra pay the senators receive for use at their discretion, better known as the \u201cbarrilito,\u201d could be eliminated if the Senate decides so. The remark came after El Informe, the investigative report by journalist Alicia Ortega, reminded tax payers of the wasteful &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/07\/18\/president-of-the-senate-says-senators-to-decide-on-slush-fund\/\" 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":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219952"}],"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=219952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219999,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219952\/revisions\/219999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}