{"id":292901,"date":"2026-02-20T05:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292901\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:32:07","slug":"treasurer-jim-chalmers-suddenly-has-a-fight-on-his-hands-from-the-coalitions-tim-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292901\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasurer Jim Chalmers suddenly has a fight on his hands from the Coalition\u2019s Tim Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 20, 2026 \u2013 2.29pm<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer Jim Chalmers came out all guns blazing this week, firing the first shots in a new economic war against Opposition Leader Angus Taylor and shadow treasurer Tim Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>But the blowtorch was quickly turned back on Chalmers \u2013 less so by his political opponents and more by a who\u2019s who of the nation\u2019s economic and business leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 20, 2026 \u2013 2.29pm Treasurer Jim Chalmers came out all guns blazing this week, firing the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-292901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}