{"id":34565,"date":"2021-04-28T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34565"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:35:27","slug":"senate-confirms-former-obama-official-samantha-power-to-lead-usaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34565","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms former Obama official Samantha Power to lead USAID"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The Senate on Wednesday confirmed\u00a0Samantha Power\u00a0to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).<\/p>\n<p>Senators voted\u00a068-26 to confirm Power, who served in the Obama administration as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden\u00a0is also expected to put Power on the White House National Security Council, where she served during Obama&#8217;s first term.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Wednesday confirmed\u00a0Samantha Power\u00a0to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34566,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34565\/revisions\/34566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}