#Government Spending

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🇺🇸 US March budget deficit rises slightly to $164 billion, war outlays delayed — 10/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Federal Budget, #Fiscal Policy
🇺🇸 White House calls new ballroom a national security necessity that's 'vital' to the Trump family's safety — 09/04/2026 [USA]
The Trump administration indicated that it will go to the Supreme Court if the federal appeals court that has the case now doesn't rule in the president's favor.
Related: #National Security, #Executive Power
🇺🇸 Independence Arch, or "Arc de Trump," plans include taxpayer funds — 09/04/2026 [USA]
The president says the arch will commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary.
Related: #Political Controversy, #National Commemoration
🇺🇸 Lessons from COVID school aid: We need clearer goals and better accountability — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Now the evidence is clearer, and the conclusion is more nuanced than either side of the school-funding debate likely prefers.
Related: #Education Policy, #Post-Pandemic Analysis
🇺🇸 Trump administration to pay French company $1B to drop U.S. offshore wind leases — 23/03/2026 [USA]
TotalEnergies has agreed to what's essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead, the De...
Related: #Energy Policy
🇺🇸 Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms — 23/03/2026 [USA]
In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.
Related: #Energy Policy
🇺🇸 UK reviews free childcare thresholds as spending hits £9bn — 23/03/2026 [USA]
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson says eligibility rules are being examined
Related: #Childcare Policy
🇺🇸 Congress must stop rewarding states for wasting taxpayers’ money — 12/03/2026 [USA]
The federal government spent approximately $186 billion in improper payments in 2025, which is more than the combined budgets of the Department of State, Department of Justice, and Department of Comme...
Related: #Fiscal Accountability
🇬🇧 Peter Mandelson asked Foreign Office for £500k severance payment, files show — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Ex-peer sacked as US ambassador over Epstein links was offered £75,000, documents released by Cabinet Office show<ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/11/peter-...
Related: #Political Ethics
🇺🇸 UK government does not know what it spends on consultants, say MPs — 11/03/2026 [USA]
Public accounts committee finds lack of accurate data prevents setting of ‘meaningful targets’
Related: #Accountability
🇺🇸 Newsom, save the marketing money. Ask Californians what they love about California — 10/03/2026 [USA]
'Invite Californians to use their phones to share short videos of their favorite places and why they love living here. You’d get a real portrait of California — its beauty, diversity and everyday magi...
Related: #Public Engagement
🇺🇸 ICE is wasting billions to literally warehouse people. In warehouses — 10/03/2026 [USA]
The scope of the planned detention network is staggering. The agency has already bought two warehouses with capacity for 8,500 people each; by comparison, the country’s largest federal prison holds ro...
Related: #Immigration Policy
🇬🇧 US senator seeks perjury investigation into Kristi Noem over DHS spending — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Senator Richard Blumenthal alleges the ousted DHS secretary lied to Congress about the agency’s contracts<ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breakin...
Related: #Political Investigation
🇬🇧 Trump cuts his losses on Noem after controversial tenure at homeland security — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Noem was one of the administration's brightest stars when she stepped into the role, but has faced a mounting backlash in recent months.
Related: #Political Shakeup, #Immigration Policy
🇬🇧 Panel reviewing Trump’s $400m White House ballroom postpones vote — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
National Capital Planning Commission cites ‘large amount of public input’, with a majority opposing the plan<ul><li><a href="https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-bre...
Related: #Political Review
🇺🇸 Pandemic jobless fraud 'dwarfs' Minnesota scandal, was largest taxpayer theft in history: Watchdog — 05/03/2026 [USA]
Pandemic unemployment insurance fraud was the single largest theft of American taxpayer dollars in history, Linda Miller, president of Program Integrity Alliance, told a panel of lawmakers.
Related: #Fraud
🇺🇸 Public Law 119 - 74 - Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 — 05/03/2026 [USA]
<h2>Content Files</h2> <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ74/pdf/PLAW-119publ74.pdf">PDF</a> <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ74/html/PLAW-119pub...
Related: #Federal Budgeting, #Appropriations
🇺🇸 ICE spending billions to turn warehouses into migrant detention facilities — 27/02/2026 [USA]
For months, ICE has been quietly buying industrial warehouses around the country, reportedly with plans to turn them into a network of immigration detention and processing centers to hold tens of thou...
Related: #Immigration Policy, #Detention, #Human Rights, #ICE
🇺🇸 DOGE defeat: Congress has rejected most of Trump's spending cuts — 19/02/2026 [USA]
President Trump and his DOGE swung for the fences last year in calling for big spending cuts, but with Congress now done with most of the 2026 budget bills, it's become clear he barely got the ball in...
Related: #Federal Budget, #Legislative Executive Relations
🇺🇸 French tax hikes tapped out, spending cuts inevitable, says audit office — 19/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Fiscal Policy, #Economic Challenges