{"id":38434,"date":"2025-02-12T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38434"},"modified":"2025-02-12T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:30:28","slug":"white-house-eyes-cuts-to-agency-budgets-of-between-30-and-40-washington-post-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38434","title":{"rendered":"White House eyes cuts to agency budgets of between 30% and 40%, Washington Post reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) &#8211; White House officials are eyeing cuts to agency budgets of between 30% and 40% on average across the government, centered on significant staff reductions, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The newspaper added that billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s team has initiated sweeping layoffs of federal employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/white-house-eyes-cuts-agency-budgets-between-30-40-washington-post-reports-2025-02-13\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) &#8211; White House officials are eyeing cuts to agency budgets of between 30% and 40% on average across the government, centered on significant staff reductions, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing sources. The newspaper added that billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s team has initiated sweeping layoffs of federal employees. reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32351,1410,2661,2800],"class_list":["post-38434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-agency-budgets","tag-cuts","tag-plans","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38436,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38434\/revisions\/38436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}