{"id":226299,"date":"2026-05-16T07:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226299"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:54:38","slug":"washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226299","title":{"rendered":"Washington ignores America&#8217;s fiscal cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States faces a dire and unsustainable fiscal outlook. You&#8217;d never know it from the action in Washington.Across parties and policy areas, you&#8217;d never guess that the U.S. faces fiscal constraints created by its high-and-rising public debt, ballooning deficits without precedent in times of prosperity&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/22\/washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States faces a dire and unsustainable fiscal outlook. You&#8217;d never know it from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff.jpg",320,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff.jpg",320,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff.jpg",320,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff.jpg",320,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff.jpg",320,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff.jpg",320,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff.jpg",320,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226299-washington-ignores-americas-fiscal-cliff.jpg",320,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}