{"id":14981,"date":"2017-01-20T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2017-01-20T07:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:34:01","slug":"the-economics-of-president-trumps-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-economics-of-president-trumps-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of President Trump\u2019s Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/012017_1231_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today Donald Trump is sworn in as 45<sup>th<\/sup> President of the United States. In separate articles John Wagner, Karen Tumulty, and, Leada Gore looked at the economics of the event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s original plan was to make the swearing-in ceremony one of the more flashier ones in recent memory, with the real estate magnate beginning the parade in Manhattan and then flying to Washington D.C.<\/li>\n<li>Things have since been scaled back substantially. There will be a parade limited to D.C. and it should last 90 minutes \u2013 in the past they&#8217;ve lasted more than four hours.<\/li>\n<li>The costs of the swearing in ceremony are paid for by the US government, and should run to about $1 million.<\/li>\n<li>Post ceremony concerts, balls, and gatherings are paid for the Presidential Inauguration Committee, which raises money from companies and individuals.<\/li>\n<li>This year it has raised $100 million \u2013 almost double the $55 million that Obama&#8217;s committee raised in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Companies are capped to donating $1 million, while individuals face no such limit.<\/li>\n<li>Any funds that remain unspent are expected to be donated to charity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/surprisingly-trump-inauguration-shapes-up-as-relatively-low-key-affair\/2017\/01\/16\/dad118e0-d9ac-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html?utm_term=.4657ee828469\">The Washington Post<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2017\/01\/donald_trump_inauguration_how_1.html\">AL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Donald Trump is sworn in as 45th President of the United States. In separate articles John Wagner, Karen Tumulty, and, Leada Gore looked at the economics of the event: Trump&#8217;s original plan was to make the swearing-in ceremony one of the more flashier ones in recent memory, with the real estate magnate beginning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/012017_1231_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14984,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions\/14984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}