{"id":950146,"date":"2025-07-26T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950146"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:14:19","slug":"us-is-accepting-gifts-via-venmo-paypal-to-reduce-36-7-trillion-debt-leaves-americans-fuming-at-the-audacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/26\/us-is-accepting-gifts-via-venmo-paypal-to-reduce-36-7-trillion-debt-leaves-americans-fuming-at-the-audacity\/","title":{"rendered":"US is accepting \u2018gifts\u2019 via Venmo, PayPal to reduce $36.7 trillion debt; leaves Americans fuming at \u2018the audacity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Americans were left fuming at the US government&#8217;s \u201caudacity\u201d in accepting \u201cgifts\u201d via Venmo and PayPal to reduce the country\u2019s ballooning $36.7 trillion debt.<\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury Department on Friday said that it is now accepting these digital payment platforms on the \u201cGifts to Reduce the Public Debt\u201d page on Pay.gov. The US public debt has increased by a whopping 87% from $19.59 trillion in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Americans were left fuming at the US government&#8217;s \u201caudacity\u201d in accepting \u201cgifts\u201d via Venmo and PayPal to reduce the country\u2019s ballooning $36.7 trillion debt. The US Treasury Department on Friday said that it is now accepting these digital payment platforms on the \u201cGifts to Reduce the Public Debt\u201d page on Pay.gov. The US public debt has increased by a whopping 87% from $19.59 trillion in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}