{"id":714,"date":"2011-10-14T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=714"},"modified":"2011-10-14T09:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:15:42","slug":"mccain-vows-to-nullify-defense-cuts-if-they%e2%80%99re-triggered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/mccain-vows-to-nullify-defense-cuts-if-they%e2%80%99re-triggered\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain vows to nullify defense cuts if they\u2019re triggered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s a failure on the part of the supercommittee, we will be among the first on the floor to nullify that provision. Congress is not bound by this. If something is passed, we can reverse it,\u201d McCain responded.<\/p>\n<p>But then what\u2019s the purpose of creating a trigger, if Congress can simply overturn the budget cuts, another reporter asked. McCain simply said: \u201cI didn\u2019t agree with the trigger being created to start with. So I have no ownership of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congress watchers have already pointed out that the \u201cautomatic cuts\u201d in the trigger are anything but automatic, as the Huffington Post\u2019s Ryan Grim has explained at length.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/mccain-vows-to-nullify-defense-cuts-if-theyre-triggered\/2011\/10\/13\/gIQAimG1hL_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">McCain vows to nullify defense cuts if they\u2019re triggered &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s a failure on the part of the supercommittee, we will be among the first on the floor to nullify that provision. Congress is not bound by this. If something is passed, we can reverse it,\u201d McCain responded. But then what\u2019s the purpose of creating a trigger, if Congress can simply overturn the budget&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[70,426,54,427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}