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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has presented his budget which he says delivers on the Tories’ pledge to cut taxes for working Britons by increasing the income tax threshold, abolishing the Tampon Tax and Reading Tax, and freezing duty on fuel and alcohol.

Dozens of MPs warned the Chancellor of the Exchequer that ending the freeze on petrol duty because of the country’s environmental commitments will hurt the working-class voters who put the Conservatives into government.  

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) stated that President Trump’s budget makes it clear that “Trump and his Republican allies in Congress don’t care about you and your family.” Transcript as Follows:  “Hi, I’m

A second day of negotiating over the post-Brexit EU budget is looking to end again in deadlock with member-states split between the “Frugals”, who want less spending; the poorer, mostly former Soviet satellite states who want more money; and the European Parliament which wants the budget period increased to a massive €1.32 trillion to help turn the EU carbon neutral.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled her new legislation to make government more transparent and slash wasteful spending exclusively on Breitbart News Daily.

President Donald Trump’s 2021 budget request shifts science funding towards his pro-growth priorities and cuts funding for the projects favored by the science establishment. 

The Trump administration’s 2021 defense budget request proposes a 3% military pay raise, just slightly below the 3.1 percent in 2020.

As Americans usher in 2020, millions say they are making a New Year’s resolution to improve their finances.

A love for international travel by members of the British Royal Family has placed huge pressure on taxpayer-funded police budgets.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement Thursday that he will introduce “common sense” legislation to better project the cost of federal budgeting by including the interest cost of government spending.

The House passed a two-year budget agreement that would raise spending by roughly $320 billion and suspend the debt ceiling until 2021.

The House Freedom Caucus announced Tuesday night that they oppose the budget agreement to lift the spending caps, chiding the agreement as “unsustainable.”

California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $215 billion budget on Thursday, which includes taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens.

Healthy families are more important than economic growth judged purely on figures on a spreadsheet, the Hungarian government told Breitbart London as it launched a new budget to support children and halt demographic decline.

Congressional leaders will meet Tuesday to discuss raising the budget caps and the federal debt ceiling, according to a report.

The City of Oakland is in such dire financial straits that it is planning to use $2.9 million from state gas tax revenues to keep the city’s lights on, rather than using the money to fix pothole-riddled roads, for which the funding was intended.

The forgotten Americans of Hurricane Michael are wondering why in the six months since the fourth most destructive hurricane on record destroyed their homes there has been no movement at all on relief funding.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lost control of the House floor on Tuesday, withdrawing from consideration before a vote what was presumed to be a mundane, run-of-the-mill, typical political messaging bill on the budget due to widespread division in her own House Democrat conference.

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo called the $175.5 billion budget “the strongest progressive statement that we’ve made.”

Democrats this week are portraying the Trump administration as dismissive of children with disabilities because of proposed budget cuts to the Special Olympics organization.

President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2020 aims to cut all funding for PBS and NPR, along with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). 

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) commented on President Trump’s budget proposal and stated that Republicans are trying to pay for their tax cuts “by going after your health care.” Schatz said, “Republicans really are coming after

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” House Appropriations Committee member and Homeland Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) stated that Democrats will have to compromise on border wall funding and “It will get done.” Co-host Sandra

During a speech before the International Association of Fire Fighters on Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Trump’s budget and said it is asking the middle class to pay for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. Biden said, “I

On Monday’s “MSNBC Live,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) said there’s “very little support, on either end of the Capitol, or either party, for the kind of spending levels, on non-defense discretionary spending, that the president’s proposing.” Yarmuth

The Trump administration released its fiscal year 2020 budget Monday with a focus on “promises kept” and putting “taxpayers first.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Voight are briefing reporters on the Trump administration 2020 budget Monday at 2:00 p.m.

Amazon finally caved to pressure for a company-wide $15 minimum wage in November. At Whole Foods, the difference looks to be made up in cuts to scheduled hours.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is blaming President Trump for his state’s $2.3 billion budget shortfall.

New House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) criticized Democrats on Thursday evening after they pushed through a bill to re-open the government — without any new funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall.

ROME (AP) — After a raucous marathon session, the Italian Senate early Sunday approved a national budget law that was tweaked after the European Union objected to plans by Italy’s populist government to satisfy expensive campaign promises with a large deficit.

President Donald Trump reasserted his position Thursday that any bill funding the government must include more money for border security.

A 50 pence coin designed to commemorate the UK’s historic exit from the European Union (EU) and retaking of national sovereignty will be issued next year.

Threats by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip ‘Remainer Phil’ Hammond to scrap today’s austerity-busting budget in the event of a ‘No Deal’ Brexit have been slapped down by the Prime Minister, insisting all spending commitments will be funded whatever happens.

The Remain-supporting Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has threatened that a no-deal Brexit would result in more austerity, putting pressure on Tory Eurosceptics to back the Prime Minister’s unpopular soft Brexit Chequers plan.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned that there is no “plan B” for Italy following the European Commission’s unprecedented rejection of the Italian budget.