{"id":8469,"date":"2023-11-28T05:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2023-11-28T05:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:29:24","slug":"cuts-loom-large-as-christopher-luxon-government-targets-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8469","title":{"rendered":"Cuts loom large as Christopher Luxon government targets the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has set his government&#8217;s &#8220;number one&#8221; goal as &#8220;fixing the economy&#8221;, but economists say that task could prove a steep hill to climb.<\/p>\n<p>Public sector cuts would help do that, but a union says public servants face an anxious wait, with no analysis or structure to the proposed cuts.<\/p>\n<p>After being sworn in on Monday, Luxon was ebullient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really enjoyed today,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is genuinely an awesome responsibility and so I think the ceremony is incredibly weighty, that actually every minister understands the responsibility that they have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, he will be attending and leading his first Cabinet meeting, leading his new government to prepare a 100-day plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our number-one job is to fix the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has set his government&#8217;s &#8220;number one&#8221; goal as &#8220;fixing the economy&#8221;, but economists say that task could prove a steep hill to climb. Public sector cuts would help do that, but a union says public servants face an anxious wait, with no analysis or structure to the proposed cuts. After being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8471,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}