{"id":49257,"date":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/953c535a-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","slug":"953c536e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/953c536e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington spares A. Samoa from CIP cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; American Samoa&#8217;s delegate in Washington, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega, has announced recently that the Department of the Interior was able to make a necessary 0.38% cut in its overall fiscal year 2000 budget without having to cut either American Samoa&#8217;s operations funding or its CIP money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank Secretary Babbitt and officials in the Office of Insular Affairs for their strong support of our federal funding,&#8221; said Faleomavaega.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this period during which the American Samoa Government is making efforts to balance its budget, it is welcome news that ASG will not also have to address a reduction in this year&#8217;s federal funding,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Under an omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress last month, each federal department&#8217;s budget was cut 0.38% from previous level to FY 2000 levels, but each secretary was given discretion within his department to cut any given program from zero to 15%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; American Samoa&#8217;s delegate in Washington, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega, has announced recently that the Department of the Interior was able to make a necessary 0.38% cut in its overall fiscal year 2000 budget without having to cut either American Samoa&#8217;s operations funding or its CIP money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49257","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}