{"id":392155,"date":"2026-07-30T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392155\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:18:10","slug":"poll-what-should-city-leaders-prioritize-in-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392155\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: What should city leaders prioritize in the budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 As Austin leaders work to finalize the city&#8217;s budget, one of the biggest debates is over public safety. The proposal would increase funding for police, fire, and EMS. But it would also cut some community violence prevention programs that supporters say help stop crime before it happens. These programs lost nearly $2 million in federal funding last year, and supporters say additional cuts could force them to scale back or end their work. Council members are expected to continue their budget discussions today.<\/p>\n<p>What should city leaders prioritize in the budget? ANSWER BELOW to vote in our morning poll and see the results <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE<\/a> on CBS Austin This Morning from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 As Austin leaders work to finalize the city&#8217;s budget, one of the biggest debates is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-392155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}