{"id":37201,"date":"2019-10-02T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37201"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:18:51","slug":"doing-your-job-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37201","title":{"rendered":"Doing Your Job Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/u-s-ambassador-to-germany-saves-taxpayers-20-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> posted an article about the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Trump administration&#8217;s ambassador to Germany has saved the U.S. taxpayer some $20 million during the last two fiscal years, according to an announcement from the American mission in Berlin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Under the leadership of U.S. ambassador Richard Grenell, the foreign mission managed to come in $6 million under budget in fiscal year 2018 and $14 million under budget in fiscal year 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8221;I believe strongly that American taxpayers expect efficiency and frugality from overseas missions. I am happy to report that after coming $6 million under budget for FY18, Mission Germany came $14 million under budget in FY19,&#8221; Grenell said in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;Additionally, we zeroed-out all growth requests for the most recent Mission Resource Review, committing to a static budget through 2021,&#8221; according to the ambassador. &#8220;Through continuous analysis of our operations and goals, we have been able to meet emerging requirements through efficiencies and reprogramming existing resources as needed.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would love to turn this man loose on the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Washington Free Beacon posted an article about the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell. The article reports: The Trump administration&#8217;s ambassador to Germany has saved the U.S. taxpayer some $20 million during the last two fiscal years, according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37201\">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":[],"class_list":["post-37201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37201","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=37201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37202,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37201\/revisions\/37202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}