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The UK government has continued its spending and borrowing spree, with the state borrowing £136 billion over the fiscal year to November.

During an interview with CBS’ “The Takeout” podcast recorded on Tuesday and released on Friday, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) stated that the version of the Build Back Better reconciliation bill that will ultimately pass will be “either fully paid for

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) believes President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act is imperfect but said Friday that she voted for it anyway, noting that the Senate would likely “slim down” the behemoth legislation.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that with the Build Back Better reconciliation bill, “we are trying to…break through this myth of the need for austerity and to make it clear

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain argued that inflation concerns “make the strongest possible case” for the Build Back Better reconciliation bill that “doesn’t put any more money into the economy on

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) said he doesn’t know how wasteful government spending would increase gas prices, and that it’s “insane for anybody to believe” that the Build Back Better

Hidden at the very bottom of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden will soon sign is the “Minority Business Development Act,” which grants the federal government broad spending powers to help “socially or economically disadvantaged” individuals.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) stated that because the price tag of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is spent over ten years “if you divide that out, it’s very little each

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) argued that whatever the final dollar amount of the budget reconciliation bill is, the bill is “broadening social programs to an extent that they’ll never be cut

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) stated that the Progressive Caucus believes that if the cost of the budget reconciliation bill has to be lowered, they should “cut the number of

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated that Democrats are being deceptive on the cost of the reconciliation bill since the programs in the bill won’t actually expire and will just be

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) stated that there are ways to lower the topline price of the reconciliation bill “creatively.” Such as shortening the duration of some of the programs, and once those

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Yasmin Vossoughian Reports,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) argued that the $3.5 trillion price tag for the Build Back Better Act reconciliation package “is a modest investment” for an economy the size of America’s. Torres said, “[T]here’s

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he thinks there are other moderates in the Democratic Party who are “hiding behind” Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and “there are moderates in the Democratic Party who

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) said that $3.5 trillion in spending under the reconciliation bill “is pretty inconsequential when you consider all the benefits to the American people,” and “The federal government

Joe Biden was asked by reporters about Joe Manchin after the West Virginia senator published an op-ed last week calling for a “pause” in spending.

Boris Johnson is set to introduce the highest tax burden on the public in 70 years, amid plans to increase National Insurance payments.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that with the amount of money the U.S. is spending on coronavirus relief, “it feels like we’re back in that headspace that we’ll never run out of cash as

The UK’s £37 billion coronavirus Test and Trace scheme showed “no clear evidence” that it has been effective in combatting the coronavirus.

 The Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (MUCF) paid out millions of Swedish kronor to ethnic associations last year.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is one of six GOP senators who voted against the nearly 6,000-page coronavirus relief and government spending bill passed by both the House and Senate on Monday, calling it a “legislative monstrosity” with $1.4 trillion in a “wasteful end-of-year spending bill and countless pet projects” advancing the interests of the “radical left” and “swamp lobbyists.”

The left is “giddy” anticipating a Biden administration that will increase funding of government schools and tighten regulations on districts.

The United Kingdom’s economic emergency is “just beginning”, according to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who predicted that unemployment will rise by over one million in the coming months.

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) radical agenda would effectively double the size of government with at least $60 trillion in new spending, according to modest estimates.

The Treasury under the leadership of Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to shift government spending outside of London, focussing on economically deprived areas in the north and the Midlands.

The House passed a spending bill Tuesday that will fund the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year, which averted a government shutdown fight but drew criticism from conservatives.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled her new bill to rein in government agency public relations and advertising spending on mascots, koozies, and fidget spinners on Breitbart News Daily.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) struggled to explain how she would pay for $40 trillion in federal government programs during a Sunday interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes.

The spending bills proposed by House Democrats to end the partial government shutdown offer no funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, but provide over $12 billion more in foreign aid than the Trump administration requested, according to a statement on Thursday from the White House Office of Management and Budget.

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Friday that he was considering a veto of the omnibus spending bill.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) stated that the budget passed by Congress last week is the worst legislation he’s voted on in his time in Congress and no other bill is close. Brooks said, “Do

During a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated people should have to answer why they were against running deficits under President Obama but support deficits under Republican presidents. Rand said, “I want people to

The year 2017 ushered in a change in how many Americans enrolled in the food stamp program and how much the government spent on it.

The amount of money the federal government spends on the food stamp program has hit a seven-year low, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data outlining the cost of the food stamp program.

Millions of Social Security recipients will be receiving fatter checks from the government starting in 2018.

The Sacramento region’s economy is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the United States, due to the huge growth of California taxes and government spending over the last five years, igniting a local housing boom.