{"id":888,"date":"2011-10-28T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=888"},"modified":"2011-10-28T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:42:20","slug":"boehner-rejects-democrats%e2%80%99-3-trillion-deficit-reduction-proposal-to-%e2%80%98supercommittee%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/boehner-rejects-democrats%e2%80%99-3-trillion-deficit-reduction-proposal-to-%e2%80%98supercommittee%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner rejects Democrats\u2019 $3 trillion deficit reduction proposal to \u2018supercommittee\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats said Thursday they had put forward a good-faith offer that included legitimate savings against the swelling federal debt and included a package of more than $300 billion in stimulus for the sagging economy. \u201cWe\u2019ve always said there are two important things\u2014get the economy moving and have jobs and to have a balanced approach,\u201d said committee member Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), as he emerged from the Democrats\u2019 strategy session. \u201cAny package needs to be judged on that test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats on Tuesday had presented a plan to achieve $3 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade, cutting as much as $500 billion from Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs and raising $1.3 trillion in new revenue.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/boehner-rejects-democratic-3-trillion-deficit-reduction-proposal-to-supercommittee\/2011\/10\/27\/gIQABPr2MM_story.html?wprss=rss_politics&amp;wpisrc=nl_wonk\">Boehner rejects Democrats\u2019 $3 trillion deficit reduction proposal to \u2018supercommittee\u2019 &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats said Thursday they had put forward a good-faith offer that included legitimate savings against the swelling federal debt and included a package of more than $300 billion in stimulus for the sagging economy. \u201cWe\u2019ve always said there are two important things\u2014get the economy moving and have jobs and to have a balanced approach,\u201d said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16,22],"tags":[121,24,546,547,545,544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}