{"id":38226,"date":"2020-08-09T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=38226"},"modified":"2020-08-09T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T14:55:19","slug":"how-the-house-armed-services-committee-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic-approved-a-huge-military-budget-and-more-war-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/09\/how-the-house-armed-services-committee-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic-approved-a-huge-military-budget-and-more-war-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/07\/09\/how-the-house-armed-services-committee-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic-approved-a-huge-military-budget-and-more-war-in-afghanistan\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AP_19015567103352-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><em>The least-discussed congressional proceedings are often the most consequential \u2014 and almost always bipartisan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><u>While the country is subsumed<\/u>\u00a0by\u00a0both public health and an unemployment crisis, and is separately focused on a sustained protest movement against police abuses, a massive $740.5 billion military spending package <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/07\/02\/house-democrats-working-with-liz-cheney-restrict-trumps-planned-withdrawal-of-troops-from-afghanistan-and-germany\/\">was approved last week<\/a> by the Democratic-controlled House Armed Services Committee. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The GOP-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee will almost certainly send the package with little to no changes to the White House for signing.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/07\/09\/how-the-house-armed-services-committee-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic-approved-a-huge-military-budget-and-more-war-in-afghanistan\/\">SYSTEM UPDATE: How the House Armed Services Committee Works<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The least-discussed congressional proceedings are often the most consequential \u2014 and almost always bipartisan. While the country is subsumed\u00a0by\u00a0both public health and an unemployment crisis,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,241,81,136,2,6,144],"tags":[200,135,318,84,79],"class_list":["post-38226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowar","category-economy","category-english","category-human-rights","category-poets-sailors-news","category-politics","category-research","tag-nowar","tag-afghanistan","tag-militarism","tag-military-spending","tag-usa","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}