{"id":7353,"date":"2024-07-05T06:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T06:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2024-07-05T06:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T06:33:56","slug":"museveni-finally-signs-appropriation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/07\/05\/museveni-finally-signs-appropriation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni Finally Signs Appropriation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has finally assented to the Appropriation Bill that was passed by Parliament in April.<\/p>\n<p>The Appropriation Bill is the other name for the budget that lays out how government is going to raise money and how it intends to spend it.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, President Museveni declined to assent to the Bill accusing the MPs of altering his government\u2019s priorities by reallocating Shs 750 billion. On Tuesday Member of Parliament amidst sharp resistance amended the Bill to take care of the President\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Presidential Press Unit, noted that Museveni signed the bill today. \u201cPPU wishes to inform the general public that the President\u2026has signed the Appropriation Bill, 2024 (reconsidered) into law. The President assented to the bill today, Thursday, 4th July 2024,\u201d the short statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>There were worries that the country had entered a new financial year that begun on July 1 without an approved budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has finally assented to the Appropriation Bill that was passed by Parliament in April. The Appropriation Bill is the other name for the budget that lays out how government is going to raise money and how it intends to spend it. Last week, President Museveni declined to assent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7358,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions\/7358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}