{"id":154043,"date":"2015-05-25T17:40:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154043"},"modified":"2015-05-25T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:42:56","slug":"obama-playing-politics-us-defense-armed-services-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-playing-politics-us-defense-armed-services-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama playing politics with US defense: Armed Services chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry says President Barack Obama is playing politics by threatening to veto a\u00a0military spending bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama has threatened to use executive power on the $612 billion 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed overwhelmingly in the House last week and has majority support in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In a 269-151 vote on May 15, Republicans overwhelmingly passed the bill that Democrats believe would break budget limits on military spending.<\/p>\n<p>The bill authorizes $523 billion in base Defense Department spending and $90 billion is included in the war fund, formally known as the Overseas Contingency Operations fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House bill authorized exactly the amount the president requested to keep America safe,\u201d Thornberry (R-Texas) said on Saturday, according to The Hill. \u201cBut he wants more money for domestic programs and he has threatened to veto the defense bill unless he gets it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, we\u2019re always going to have our differences, but it\u2019s wrong for anyone to play politics with defense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/24\/412604\/US-MILITARY-SPENDING-PENTAGON-BUDGET-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry says President Barack Obama is playing politics by threatening to veto a\u00a0military spending bill. Obama has threatened to use executive power on the $612 billion 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed overwhelmingly in the House last week and has majority support in the Senate. In a 269-151 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}