{"id":32816,"date":"2019-03-19T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=32816"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:52:08","slug":"trumps-record-spy-budget-what-do-we-really-get-for-86-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/trumps-record-spy-budget-what-do-we-really-get-for-86-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Record Spy Budget \u2013 What Do We Really Get For $86 Billion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Administration has requested a huge increase in the US spy budget, including a whopping $23 billion for the &#8220;black&#8221; budget. The reasons given are the increasing threats from Russia and China. Does all this spy spending really protect us&#8230;or is it just welfare for the Beltway bandits and scaremongers? Tune in to today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d5upJv1CaWw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Administration has requested a huge increase in the US spy budget, including a whopping $23 billion for the &#8220;black&#8221; budget. The reasons given are the increasing threats from Russia and China. Does all this spy spending really protect us&#8230;or is it just welfare for the Beltway bandits and scaremongers? Tune in to today&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-32816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32819,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816\/revisions\/32819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32816"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=32816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}