{"id":214812,"date":"2019-05-18T03:56:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T07:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=214812"},"modified":"2019-05-18T03:56:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T07:56:15","slug":"pelosi-to-meet-mnuchin-in-hopes-of-deals-on-debt-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/18\/pelosi-to-meet-mnuchin-in-hopes-of-deals-on-debt-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi to meet Mnuchin in hopes of deals on debt, spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_201506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201506\" style=\"width: 807px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/28168842_2051709295074823_6655449941737058775_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201506\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/28168842_2051709295074823_6655449941737058775_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/28168842_2051709295074823_6655449941737058775_n-1.jpg 807w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/28168842_2051709295074823_6655449941737058775_n-1-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/28168842_2051709295074823_6655449941737058775_n-1-768x914.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/28168842_2051709295074823_6655449941737058775_n-1-17x20.jpg 17w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spokesman for Pelosi says the two politically nettlesome items won&#8217;t necessarily be paired together. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pelosiforcongress\/photos\/a.1717901875122235\/2051709295074823\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pelosiforcongress\/\">Nancy Pelosi\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders have arranged to meet with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney next week.<\/p>\n<p>They want to explore an agreement to increase the government&#8217;s borrowing cap, as well as legislation to stave off a severe round of cuts to agency budgets and the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Pelosi says the two politically nettlesome items won&#8217;t necessarily be paired together. Both are considered must-do by Pelosi and her powerful Senate GOP counterpart, Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to increase the government&#8217;s debt limit could spark a catastrophic first-ever default on U.S. obligations, while lifting so-called spending \u201ccaps\u201d is needed for a successful bipartisan round of spending bills.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative forces inside the White House have resisted the idea of an agreement on spending caps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders have arranged to meet with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":201506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-andrew-taylor","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214813,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214812\/revisions\/214813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}