{"id":7736,"date":"2014-06-11T16:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T21:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T21:54:16","slug":"nalc-the-facts-on-mccarthys-setting-the-record-straight-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/06\/11\/nalc-the-facts-on-mccarthys-setting-the-record-straight-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC: The facts on McCarthy\u2019s \u2018Setting the Record Straight\u2019 memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From NALC &#8211; 6.11.2014<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) issued a memo on June 9 to defend\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/latest\/05312014_htf.html\">Cantor-McCarthy gimmick to fund highway spending<\/a>, which would use the phony <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6526\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\" alt=\"3-NALC News Small\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>savings from a hypothetical future bailout of the Postal Service to fund a temporary extension of the Highway Trust Fund. Rather than \u201cSetting the Record Straight,\u201d McCarthy\u2019s memo continues to confuse and mislead on a number of key issues.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/latest\/downloads\/real_facts_on_mccarthy_memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the facts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NALC &#8211; 6.11.2014 House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) issued a memo on June 9 to defend\u00a0the Cantor-McCarthy gimmick to fund highway spending, which would use the phony savings from a hypothetical future bailout of the Postal Service to fund a temporary extension of the Highway Trust Fund. Rather than \u201cSetting the Record Straight,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7737,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions\/7737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}