{"id":3434,"date":"2016-02-02T19:19:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T23:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2016-02-12T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:16:17","slug":"house-democrats-oppose-proposed-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/house-democrats-oppose-proposed-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Oppose Proposed Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1310\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?attachment_id=1310\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kentucky-Seal.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Kentucky Seal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kentucky-Seal.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kentucky-Seal.jpg?resize=225%2C225\" alt=\"Kentucky Seal\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kentucky-Seal.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kentucky-Seal.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nHouse Democrats say they likely will not approve $650 million worth of state spending cuts as outlined in Republican Governor Matt Bevin&#8217;s budget proposal.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The resistance sets up a budget battle one month ahead of four special elections that could shift the balance of power in the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>State economists say Kentucky will have an extra $900 million to spend over the next two years. But a combination of ballooning pension debts and the rising costs of the state&#8217;s Medicaid system led Bevin to slash the budget by 4.5 percent this year and another 9 percent over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>House budget committee chairman Rick Rand of Bedford says he does not understand cutting the budget when the state is projected to finish the fiscal year with a $200 million surplus.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats say they likely will not approve $650 million worth of state spending cuts as outlined in Republican Governor Matt Bevin&#8217;s budget proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-To","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-01 08:18:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kentucky-Seal.jpg?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}