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The U.S government\u2019s debt hit\u00a0$37.6 trillion<\/a>\u00a0on Sept. 30, the end of the\u00a0most recent fiscal year<\/a>. To put that number in perspective, a stack of $1 bills in that amount would be\u00a02.5 million miles tall<\/a>. One day after the nation reached this ignominious fiscal mark, the federal\u00a0government shut down<\/a>\u00a0due to a lack of funding. Legislators are unable to agree on how much to spend: more, or a whole lot more…. (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S government\u2019s debt hit\u00a0$37.6 trillion\u00a0on Sept. 30, the end of the\u00a0most recent fiscal year. To put that number in perspective, a stack of $1 bills in that amount would be\u00a02.5 million miles tall. One day after the nation reached this ignominious fiscal mark, the federal\u00a0government shut down\u00a0due to a lack of funding. Legislators are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1sG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5624,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}