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How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true
ELON MUSK and Vivek Ramaswamy are keen to whip the American government into shape. On November 14th their newly created ...
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk Could Cut $2 Trillion in Government Spending
If Musk is truly serious about fiscal discipline, he'll advise the president-elect to eschew many of the policies he promised ...
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2025 budget estimate projects lower deficit
This was revealed before lawmakers on Friday by the minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Seedy Keita, as he presented the draft budget estimate for the 2025 fiscal year. “The fiscal gap will ...
Maryland lawmakers face new $2.7 billion budget deficit, ‘worst situation we’ve seen in the last 20 years’
Maryland lawmakers were warned Tuesday of an impending $2.7 billion deficit they’ll need to resolve for the next budget year ...
U.S. October budget deficit jumps to $257 billion, handing hole to Trump
The U.S. budget deficit jumped nearly four-fold to $257 billion in October, a figure inflated by one-off factors, the ...
Biden Administration Kicks Off Fiscal 2025 With Yet Another Big Budget Deficit
The federal government ran a $257.45 billion budget shortfall to start the new fiscal year, with revenue down and spending up ...
Mexican Government Seeks to Shrink Deficit With 2025 Budget Plan
The 2025 budget plan calls for the public sector borrowing requirement--a broad measure of the fiscal deficit--to decline to 3.9% of gross domestic product from 5.9% of GDP this year. Public sector ...