#Budget Cuts

Articles (6)

• 🇬🇧 UK reveals aid priorities after major cuts to budget — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Aid groups and MPs have raised concerns over the move to prioritise defence spending over aid.

  Related: #Foreign Aid
• 🇺🇸 How State Department cuts of Middle East experts affect U.S.'s handling of Iran war — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray.

  Related: #Foreign Policy, #Expertise
• 🇬🇧 Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid due to 56% budget cut — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>UK’s bilateral aid to Africa, which funds areas such as schools and clinics, to be cut by almost £900m by 2028-29</p><p>Some of the world’s poorest countries will lose out on UK aid that funds prog...

  Related: #Foreign Aid
• 🇺🇸 Senate Democrat links budget cuts to Iran school bombing — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who served on the U.S. National Security Council during the Obama administration, says that the missile strike on an elementary school in Iran may have been the result of Trump...

  Related: #International Security
• 🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area Residents Weigh Possibility of BART Reductions — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  The Bay Area Rapid Transit system was once so successful, it could rely mostly on riders to sustain itself. But the pandemic dealt BART an unusually heavy blow.

  Related: #Public Transit
• 🇺🇸 Wealthy Moscow cuts investment, revealing Russia’s deeper budget problems — 06/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Economic Challenges