{"id":196575,"date":"2015-11-02T22:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T22:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=196575"},"modified":"2015-11-02T22:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T22:25:28","slug":"national-debt-hit-20-trillion-obama-leaves-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/national-debt-hit-20-trillion-obama-leaves-office\/","title":{"rendered":"National debt to hit $20 trillion when Obama leaves office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The total national debt in the United States is set to hit the $20 trillion mark around the time President Barack Obama leaves office in 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama on Monday signed a two-year budget deal with congressional Republicans, which averts a potential government shutdown over the nation\u2019s debt limit.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will suspend the debt ceiling until March 16, 2017 and allow the Treasury Department to borrow another $1.5 trillion, according to <em>The Washington Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That would add to the current national debt of more than $18.15 trillion, raising the red ink to about $20 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>When Obama took office in January 2009, the national debt stood at $10.6 trillion. That means the debt will nearly have doubled by the time he leaves the White House in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/11\/02\/436032\/Obama-national-debt-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total national debt in the United States is set to hit the $20 trillion mark around the time President Barack Obama leaves office in 2017. Obama on Monday signed a two-year budget deal with congressional Republicans, which averts a potential government shutdown over the nation\u2019s debt limit. The agreement will suspend the debt ceiling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,52,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-money","9":"category-latest-news","10":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196575","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=196575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}