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Liberal leadership candidates vow to speed up spending on national defence
Liberal leadership candidates spent Thursday attempting to one-up each other over how quickly they'd meet NATO's defence ...
Canada’s military just wants to be loved
The Canadians acknowledged more needs to be done to meet NATO defense targets. But Blair and Champagne said that tariffs ...
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There's Actually an Incredibly Easy Way for Elon Musk to Trim $2 Trillion of Government Spending: Cut Funding for Nuclear Weapons
Easy As Pie Can we all agree that nuclear warfare is bad? Yes? Well, do we have an easy way that Elon Musk and his so-called ...
House Democrat: ‘I don’t contest’ DOGE will likely find ‘awful examples of wasteful spending’
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Thursday he thinks President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) commission, ...
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What the data says about U.S. foreign aid
The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.
Bayrou rams through French austerity budget, exposing bankruptcy of New Popular Front
Prime Minister François Bayrou’s ramming through of a deep austerity budget with support of the social-democratic PS and the neo-fascists exposes the bankruptcy of Mélenchon’s NFP.
Leader Thune backs Senate GOP bid to speed past House on Trump budget plan
S.D., has come out in support of a Senate GOP effort to move out in front of their House colleagues on the crucial budget ...
Chrystia Freeland to set aggressive timeline for 2% defence spending by 2027
Successive Canadian governments have for years failed to make NATO’s defence spending targets, drawing the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump meets with congressional Republicans as GOP lawmakers argue over tax and spending cuts
The meeting comes as Trump’s GOP allies on Capitol Hill are arguing with themselves over his “big, beautiful bill.” ...
Trump's tax cuts are ‘stuck in the mud' as Republicans split over spending
Fiscal hawks are demanding deeper cuts on major tax, energy and healthcare package that would advance key Trump ...
Opinion: Two ways to boost Canadian defence spending and minimize Trump's tariff threats
The measures would also allow Canada’s leaders to boast to Trump, his cabinet and Congress, as well as to our NATO allies, ...
In Lamont’s budget speech, a fervent defense of ‘Connecticut values’ in opposition to Trump
Towards the end of his speech, CT Gov. Ned Lamont introduced its chief DEI officer and the case for keeping diversity, equity and inclusion.