{"id":249802,"date":"2026-11-11T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-house-scrutinizes-boakais-u-s-1-53b-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:30:33","slug":"liberia-house-scrutinizes-boakais-u-s-1-53b-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-house-scrutinizes-boakais-u-s-1-53b-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: House Scrutinizes Boakai&#8217;s U.S.$1.53b Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><strong>CAPITOL HILL, November 11, 2026:<\/strong> The House of Representatives has begun legislative consideration of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s proposed US$1.539 billion National Budget for Fiscal Year 2027, with lawmakers raising concerns over salary adjustments and the restoration of benefits for public servants affected by the government&#8217;s previous harmonization exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The draft budget, submitted to the Legislature on November 6, 2026, covers the period January 1 to December 31, 2027, and outlines the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611110223.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>CAPITOL HILL, November 11, 2026: The House of Representatives has begun legislative consideration of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s proposed US$1.539 billion National Budget for Fiscal Year 2027, with lawmakers raising concerns over salary adjustments and the restoration of benefits for public servants affected by the government&#8217;s previous harmonization exercise. The draft budget, submitted to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249803,"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":[258,256,12935,6080,5110,4712,1107,257,47295,254,55818],"class_list":["post-249802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakais","tag-budget","tag-house","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-scrutinizes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-1-53b"],"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\/249802","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=249802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}