{"id":231606,"date":"2010-01-26T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74803"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:39:31","slug":"dem-aide-reports-of-80-billion-jobs-bill-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231606","title":{"rendered":"Dem Aide: Reports of $80 Billion Jobs Bill Are Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/01\/senate-democrats-eye-80b-jobs.html?hpid=topnews\" >reports<\/a> about an $80 billion Senate jobs package? &#8220;Wrong,&#8221; a Senate Democratic aide told TWI. The staffer indicated this afternoon that Democrats are weighing a number of proposals to tackle the unemployment crisis but remain undecided about which route they&#8217;ll go. The $80 billion package, the aide said, was just one option that happened to leak to the press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything that was in that document has changed,&#8221; the aide said. &#8220;It is not at all where we are now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One detail from those reports, though, is probably accurate. The Democrats will likely push an extension of unemployment and COBRA benefits separately, the aide said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those reports about an $80 billion Senate jobs package? &#8220;Wrong,&#8221; a Senate Democratic aide told TWI. The staffer indicated this afternoon that Democrats are weighing a number of proposals to tackle the unemployment crisis but remain undecided about which route they&#8217;ll go. The $80 billion package, the aide said, was just one option that happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}