{"id":213148,"date":"2025-11-10T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-how-realistic-is-liberias-u-s-1-21-bn-2026-draft-national-budget\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:38:32","slug":"liberia-how-realistic-is-liberias-u-s-1-21-bn-2026-draft-national-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-how-realistic-is-liberias-u-s-1-21-bn-2026-draft-national-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: How Realistic Is Liberia&#8217;s U.S.$1.21 Bn 2026 Draft National Budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">President Joseph N. Boakai, through the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, presented the Draft 2026 National Budget amounting to US$1.21 billion to the National Legislature for approval last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The 2026 draft National Budget of US$1.21 billion represents a significant increase from the 2025 budget of just over US$880 million. This ambitious fiscal blueprint arrives at a critical juncture, as the country seeks to address longstanding developmental challenges and stimulate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511100373.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>President Joseph N. Boakai, through the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, presented the Draft 2026 National Budget amounting to US$1.21 billion to the National Legislature for approval last Friday. The 2026 draft National Budget of US$1.21 billion represents a significant increase from the 2025 budget of just over US$880 million. This ambitious fiscal blueprint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6080,7894,4712,1107,8536,6687,257,22836,254,52839],"class_list":["post-213148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-budget","tag-draft","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-national","tag-news","tag-realistic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-1-21"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/213148","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=213148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}