{"id":167191,"date":"2026-04-30T09:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=167191"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:41:37","slug":"lawmakers-approve-budget-bill-as-fs-explains-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=167191","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers approve budget bill as FS explains moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1852873_1_M_20260429140634.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Wednesday dismissed concerns from some lawmakers that the financial cornerstone of the SAR will be shaken by the government&#8217;s plan to use HK$150 billion from the Exchange Fund for infrastructure spending. <\/p>\n<p>This came as lawmakers approved the budget bill, with some of them raising questions about the funds transfer plan&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1852873-20260429.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Wednesday dismissed co [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}