{"id":1218,"date":"2017-02-28T15:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2017-02-28T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:02:39","slug":"u-s-military-spending-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/u-s-military-spending-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S military spending on the rise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1219 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-content\/uploads\/US-spending.png?resize=338%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"169\" \/>US President Donald Trump is seeking to boost defence spending by 10% in his proposed budget plan for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The blueprint will increase defence spending by $54bn (\u00a343bn) but seeks to recoup that sum through deep cuts elsewhere, including to foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s plan leaves large welfare programmes untouched, despite Republican calls for reform. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-39108194?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_linkname=news_central\">Read more\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is seeking to boost defence spending by 10% in his proposed budget plan for 2018. The blueprint will increase defence spending by $54bn (\u00a343bn) but seeks to recoup that sum through deep cuts elsewhere, including to foreign aid. Mr Trump&#8217;s plan leaves large welfare programmes untouched, despite Republican calls for reform. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"U.S military spending on the rise!\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/u-s-military-spending-on-the-rise\/#more-1218\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S military spending on the rise!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}