{"id":2435,"date":"2009-01-29T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2009-01-29T18:31:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:31:34","slug":"hope-for-family-planning-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/29\/hope-for-family-planning-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for Family Planning Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d very much <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/01\/source-obama-plans-to-get-family-planning-aid-done.php\">like to be shown up as too cynical<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A source present at today&#8217;s White House signing ceremony for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2009\/01\/obama_signs_equal-pay_bill_1.php\">Lilly Ledbetter bill<\/a> tells me that President Obama gave assurances that the family planning aid would be done soon &#8212; perhaps as soon as next week, when the House is set to take up a spending bill that would keep the government funded until October.<\/p>\n<p>Obama emphasized that the family-planning aid &#8220;makes the budget look better, it&#8217;s a money saver,&#8221; the source said. In fact, removing the need for Medicaid waivers for family planning saves states <a href=\"http:\/\/community.feministing.com\/2009\/01\/family-planning-stripped-from.htmlhttp:\/\/community.feministing.com\/2009\/01\/family-planning-stripped-from.html\">an estimated $700 million<\/a> over 10 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was wrong &#8211; in a big way &#8211; about Obama in the election.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d very much like to be wrong &#8211; in a similarly big way &#8211; about my view of his approach to the politics of governing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d very much like to be shown up as too cynical: A source present at today&#8217;s White House signing ceremony for the Lilly Ledbetter bill tells me that President Obama gave assurances that the family planning aid would be done soon &#8212; perhaps as soon as next week, when the House is set to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}