{"id":13871,"date":"2024-06-07T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13871"},"modified":"2024-06-07T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:08:49","slug":"bidens-big-bet-hits-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13871","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s big bet hits reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Less than 17 percent of the $1.1 trillion those laws provided for direct investments on climate, energy and infrastructure has been spent as of April, nearly two years after Biden signed the last of the statutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Trump has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/agenda47\/agenda47-using-impoundment-to-cut-waste-stop-inflation-and-crush-the-deep-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said he should have the power<\/a>\u00a0to refuse to spend congressionally appropriated money he considers wasteful, despite a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/07\/12\/budget-and-impoundment-control-act-becomes-law-july-12-1974-240372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1974 law<\/a>\u00a0that says otherwise. This raises the prospect that he could attempt to pare Biden-era funding even if it\u2019s at an advanced stage of distribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2024\/biden-trillion-dollar-spending-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2024\/biden-trillion-dollar-spending-tracker\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Less than 17 percent of the $1.1 trillion those laws provided for direct investments on climate, energy and infrastructure has been spent as of April, nearly two years after Biden signed the last of the statutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump has said he should have the power to refuse to spend congressionally appropriated money he considers wasteful, despite a 1974 law that says otherwise. This raises the prospect that he could attempt to pare Biden-era funding even if it\u2019s at an advanced stage of distribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2024\/biden-trillion-dollar-spending-tracker\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[375,105,1193,1247,1483,780,279],"class_list":["post-13871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-biden","tag-climate-change","tag-government-spending","tag-infrastructure","tag-investment","tag-joe-biden","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13872,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871\/revisions\/13872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}