{"id":29278,"date":"2019-08-19T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29278"},"modified":"2019-08-19T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T20:39:10","slug":"put-some-votes-on-the-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29278","title":{"rendered":"Put Some Votes On The Credit Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/white-house-officials-eyeing-payroll-tax-cut-in-effort-to-reverse-weakening-economy\/2019\/08\/19\/4cab28ec-c2bd-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html\">Several senior White House officials<\/a> have begun discussing whether to push for a temporary payroll tax cut as a way to arrest an economic slowdown, three people familiar with the discussions said, revealing the growing concerns by President Trump\u2019s top economic aides.<\/p>\n<p>The talks are still in their early stages, and the officials have not decided whether to formally push Congress to approve the cut, these people said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorized to disclose internal discussions. But the White House in recent days has begun searching for proposals that could halt a slowing economy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fiscal responsibility? That's for suckers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several senior White House officials have begun discussing whether to push for a temporary payroll tax cut as a way to arrest an economic slowdown, three people familiar with the discussions said, revealing the growing concerns by President Trump\u2019s top economic aides. The talks are still in their early stages, and the officials have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29279,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions\/29279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}