{"id":2207938,"date":"2024-03-27T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T03:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-mayor-admits-his-city-is-broke-with-tens-of-millions-in-debt-couldnt-even-pay-firefighters\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T23:06:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T03:06:48","slug":"dem-mayor-admits-his-city-is-broke-with-tens-of-millions-in-debt-couldnt-even-pay-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-mayor-admits-his-city-is-broke-with-tens-of-millions-in-debt-couldnt-even-pay-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"City Mayor Acknowledges Financial Crisis: Owes Tens of Millions, Unable to Compensate Firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-mayor-admits-his-city-is-broke-with-tens-of-millions-in-debt-couldnt-even-pay-firefighters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2207938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Houston&#8217;s Mayor, John Whitmire, acknowledged his city&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-fall-to-712000\/\" title=\"U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Fall to 712,000\">financial crisis<\/a> in a \u200crecent meeting, revealing significant debt and an inability to pay firefighters. Despite\u2063 defeating Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in December, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-bidens-pwadueh-and-other-top-pandering-moments-from-desperate-democrats\/\" title=\"Jill Biden\u2019s \u2018Pwadueh\u2019 And Other Top Pandering Moments From Desperate Democrats\">mayor faces<\/a> \u200dthe\u2064 challenge of managing \u2062the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-peacekeepers-killed-in-central-african-republic-before-election\/\" title=\"U.N. peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic before election\">fourth-largest city<\/a>&#8216;s financial woes. This news was reported by The\u200b Western Journal. Houston&#8217;s Mayor, John Whitmire, admitted the city&#8217;s financial\u200d crisis, citing \u200dsubstantial debt and the inability to compensate firefighters. Despite his\u200c victory against Sheila Jackson Lee in December, he grapples with \u2064overseeing the financial challenges of the nation&#8217;s fourth-largest city. This information was reported by The Western Journal.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s Democratic mayor admitted at a meeting last week that the country\u2019s fourth-largest city is \u201cbroke.\u201d Mayor John Whitmire was elected in December, overwhelmingly defeating Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. [\u2026]\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-mayor-admits-city-broke-tens-millions-debt-couldnt-even-pay-firefighters\/\">Dem Mayor Admits His City Is Broke with Tens of Millions in Debt, Couldn&#8217;t Even Pay Firefighters<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston\u2019s Mayor John Whitmire recently revealed the financial struggles of the fourth-largest city, describing it as &#8220;broke&#8221; during a meeting. This confession comes after his election victory in December, where he defeated Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. The city is facing substantial debt, leading to challenges in meeting essential obligations, such as compensating firefighters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":2207939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mayor.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mayor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}