{"id":27735,"date":"2016-03-04T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T01:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27735"},"modified":"2016-03-04T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T01:01:22","slug":"one-suggestion-for-a-budget-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27735","title":{"rendered":"One Suggestion For A Budget Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/taxpayers-funding-ex-speaker-boehners-aides-6-figure-salaries\/article\/2584944?custom_click=rss\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Examiner<\/a> is reporting today that the taxpayer-funded Office of the Former Speaker is paying two aides to former Speaker <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"John Boehner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">John Boehner<\/a> more than $10,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Boehner stepped down at the end of October. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rep. Paul Ryan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/ryan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Rep. Paul Ryan<\/a> was elected to replace him. Boehner&#8217;s office opened in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Office of the Former Speaker is an official office that provides space and staff to former House speakers for some five years. Former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Speaker (politics)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speaker_%28politics%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">House Speaker<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dennis Hastert\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Hastert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Dennis Hastert<\/a> ran up a $1.9 million bill, according to reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Might I suggest that we abolish the concept of Office of the Former Speaker and any funding that goes with it. I see no reason for extra staff once the Speaker leaves office. This is the culture in Washington that we need to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner is reporting today that the taxpayer-funded Office of the Former Speaker is paying two aides to former Speaker John Boehner more than $10,000 a month. The article reports: Boehner stepped down at the end of October. Rep. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27735\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1326,2720],"class_list":["post-27735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dennis-hastert","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27737,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735\/revisions\/27737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}