{"id":254335,"date":"2017-06-14T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=254335"},"modified":"2017-06-14T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T20:00:48","slug":"interior-releases-7-8m-american-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/interior-releases-7-8m-american-samoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior releases $7.8M for American Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u2014This week the Office of Insular Affairs\u00a0released $7.8 million in remaining grant assistance for fiscal year 2017 to the American Samoa government through the Office of Insular Affairs\u2019 Operations Grant Program. These funds are what remained of the annual $22.75 million needed to support the daily operations of the American Samoa government, the LBJ Tropical Medical Center, the American Samoa Community College, and the high court of American Samoa. The purpose of this program, as mandated by Congress, is to fund the difference between budget needs and local revenue and remains constant each year to support government operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese funds are critical for government operations in the territory of American Samoa,\u201d said acting Interior assistant secretary for Insular Areas Nikolao Pula. \u201cWe are pleased to transmit the remaining funds on behalf of the administration.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014This week the Office of Insular Affairs\u00a0released $7.8 million in remaining grant assistance for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20,10063,1589],"class_list":["post-254335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-budget","tag-insular-affairs","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}