{"id":184961,"date":"2024-11-20T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T09:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-to-conduct-a-separate-hearing-on-the-draft-national-budget\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T09:18:30","slug":"liberia-senate-to-conduct-a-separate-hearing-on-the-draft-national-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-to-conduct-a-separate-hearing-on-the-draft-national-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senate to Conduct a Separate Hearing On the Draft National Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Liberia Senate plenary has decided to hear and scrutinize the 2025 draft National Budget separately in the wake of an ongoing political crisis at the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Normally, the Liberian Senate and the House of Representatives conduct a joint hearing on the draft National Budget. This saves time and effectively makes adjustments to the budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Both houses&#8217; committees mostly do this on Ways, Means, Finance, and Budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">However, due to the impasse in the House of Representatives, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411200076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberia Senate plenary has decided to hear and scrutinize the 2025 draft National Budget separately in the wake of an ongoing political crisis at the House of Representatives. Normally, the Liberian Senate and the House of Representatives conduct a joint hearing on the draft National Budget. This saves time and effectively makes adjustments to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6080,6343,7894,6636,4712,1107,6687,257,8115,8644,254],"class_list":["post-184961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-budget","tag-conduct","tag-draft","tag-hearing","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-senate","tag-separate","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}