{"id":2474,"date":"2026-01-20T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/prime-ministers-office-establishes-committee-to-reduce-govt-debt-liabilities\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:00:34","slug":"prime-ministers-office-establishes-committee-to-reduce-govt-debt-liabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/prime-ministers-office-establishes-committee-to-reduce-govt-debt-liabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister\u2019s Office establishes committee to reduce govt debt, liabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) on Tuesday announced the establishment of the Debt and Liability Management Committee, which is tasked with reducing the government\u2019s debt and liabilities to a manageable level within 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>PMO in a statement today said the committee would report directly to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.<\/p>\n<p>The five committee members are experts in finance, economics, and law.<\/p>\n<p>They are Treasury secretary-general Datuk Ahmad Badri Mohd Zahir, Attorney General\u2019s Chambers head of advisory division To\u2019 Puan Azian Mohd Aziz, economic adviser to the Prime Minister Dr<\/p>\n<p>Muhammed Abdul Khalid, Bank Negara Malaysia board member Gooi Hoe Soon and Securities Commission board member Faris Rabidin.<\/p>\n<p>PMO said the appointments were effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The committee was proposed during the tabling of the 2019 Budget in November last year. \u2014 Bernama<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) on Tuesday announced the establishment of the Debt and Liability Management Committee, which is tasked with reducing the government\u2019s debt and liabilities to a manageable level within 18 months. PMO in a statement today said the committee would report directly to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The five committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}