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

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 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.

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.

Adam Andrzejewski, founder and chief executive officer of OpentheBooks.com spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday regarding his latest investigation into outrageous government spending and the lack of transparency.

On Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) touted his stated that Obamacare replacements are becoming “too elaborate now, and they’re adding in some government programs that I object to.” Rand also touted his

The government has kept no records on the majority of the £2.5 billion of research it commissions each year, an inquiry has found, leading to concerns that it may be using its lack of transparency to cover up findings it

The Federal Reserve is dealing financial drugs and endangering the world economy by creating a bond bubble of epic proportions.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated he would increase military spending on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. After host Sean Hannity talked about the penny plan, [relevant exchange begins around 7:25] Trump said, “except the military.” He was

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was pressed on his plan to cut the deficit during Thursday’s GOP presidential debate on the Fox News Channel on Thursday. Trump was asked by moderator Chris Wallace, “Mr. Trump, your proposed tax cut would add

“McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin argued that President Obama’s proposed budget “is not small” and would add $62 billion to the deficit according to the White House’s own numbers on Friday. McLaughlin said, “Coming in at $4.1 trillion and bringing

President Obama argued, “there are a bunch of folks who say that we’re wildly overspending, even though we aren’t” and that many things on the Internet and news broadcasts “are just factually inaccurate” on Friday’s broadcast of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated that as president he “wouldn’t sign anything that borrows from the future” and would tell agency and subagency heads to cut their budgets by 2-3% or resign and do these cuts “in a

With Ted Cruz’s come-from-behind victory in Iowa and Marco Rubio’s surge, we now move forward to New Hampshire knowing less than we did coming into Iowa. Will Donald Trump collapse? Does Rubio have any plans to win any state before mid-March? Can Cruz consolidate enough support to stop either one of the other two candidates? Iowa gave us few indicators.

Phyllis Schlafly predicts Trump will win because grassroots voters are outraged over such “betrayals” as the omnibus spending bill, in which Republicans used their historic midterm election victory – under the leadership of a Speaker who made his bones as the math-wizard archenemy of irresponsible government spending – to deliver a trillion-dollar bag of Christmas goodies to Democrats, funding almost the entirety of the Obama agenda without a fight.

The $1.1 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill includes more funding to settle illegal immigrants in the United States.

Prior to Paul Ryan’s election to House Speaker, American victims of illegal alien crime warned conservatives against supporting Ryan’s Speakership, given his two-decade-long history of pushing for open borders. At an October press conference just days before Ryan’s election as Speaker,

Congressional leaders have averted a government shutdown and have set new policies, such as strengthening the visa waiver program, according to Reuters.

On Wednesday, the White House rejected the Pentagon’s plan for an alternative to the Guantánamo Bay military facility on mainland U.S. soil because it could cost $600 million to implement and was deemed too expensive.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.

“The current system isn’t fair,” 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz responded before explaining the details of his recently released tax plan at Tuesday night’s Fox Business-Wall Street Journal debate.

Republican presidential candidates Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee sparred over their spending records during Tuesday’s GOP undercard presidential debate on Fox Business Network. After Jindal said he was the only candidate who has cut government

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson discussed his tax and spending plan, stating that the flat tax rate would have to be “about 15%” to be revenue neutral and that if every federal agency of subagency was trimmed by 2-3%