{"id":138242,"date":"2018-02-09T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=138242"},"modified":"2018-02-09T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:37:04","slug":"congress-passes-spending-bill-president-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=138242","title":{"rendered":"Congress passes spending bill, president signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-115117\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpSigningExecOrder-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpSigningExecOrder-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpSigningExecOrder-260x175.png 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpSigningExecOrder.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump has signed a $400 billion budget deal that sharply boosts spending and swells the federal deficit, ending a brief federal government shutdown that happened while most Americans were sleeping. The House and Senate approved a bill to keep the government funded through March 23, overcoming opposition from liberal Democrats as well as tea party conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is making the case on Twitter for electing more Republicans to Congress after signing a $400 billion spending plan. Trump says, &#8220;Without more Republicans in Congress, we were forced to increase spending on things we do not like or want&#8221; to help the U.S. military. He says non-military spending &#8220;will never come down&#8221; without electing more Republicans in the 2018 elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump has signed a $400 billion budget deal that sharply boosts spending and swells the federal deficit, ending a brief federal government shutdown that happened while most Americans were sleeping. The House and Senate approved a bill to keep the government funded through March 23, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138243,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138242\/revisions\/138243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}