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**BakersRelay** @BakerRL75@m.ai6yr.org · 9h

From WTOPNews.com: Maryland Senate OKs budget to address a $3B deficit with concerns about Trump administration cuts

https://wtop.com/maryland/2025/04/maryland-senate-oks-budget-to-address-a-3b-deficit-with-concerns-about-trump-administration-cuts/

WTOP News · 11hMaryland Senate OKs budget to address a $3B deficit with concerns about Trump administration cutsBy The Associated Press

**BakersRelay** @BakerRL75@m.ai6yr.org · 9h

BakersRelay @BakerRL75@m.ai6yr.org

#OlVirginny #VAPol #Budget

From WTOPNews.com: Democrats likely to reject ‘the vast bulk’ of Youngkin’s budget amendments

https://wtop.com/virginia/2025/04/democrats-likely-to-reject-the-vast-bulk-of-youngkins-budget-amendments/

WTOP News · 12hDemocrats likely to reject ‘the vast bulk’ of Youngkin’s budget amendmentsBy Nick Iannelli

**⋆★⋆Ali⋆★⋆** @alipunk@thecanadian.social · 23h

23h

⋆★⋆Ali⋆★⋆ @alipunk@thecanadian.social

1. Antipasto on Breton crackers
2. 14 yr old wanted to do a mock #budget with my help for his future self, and he's feeling hopeful it can be done working at the grocery store if professional #hockey player doesn't work out
3. Activism / Resistance #Art

#3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings

**Lydia Conwell** @lydiaconwell@todon.nl · 2d

Lydia Conwell @lydiaconwell@todon.nl

#LeftFootForward | Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity

"Progressive taxation, equitable distribution of income and wealth did not get any mention in the Chancellor’s statement. No steps have been taken to reduce billions of subsidies handed to banks, oil, gas, auto, steel, internet and other companies. A relentless squeeze of the less well-off won’t help with rejuvenation of the economy. "

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/03/why-austerity-is-a-political-choice-not-an-economic-necessity/

Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate · 5dWhy austerity is a political choice not an economic necessityPrem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’

#Labour #Reeves #Budget

**Tomasz Woźniak** @tomaszwozniak@fosstodon.org · 2d

Tomasz Woźniak @tomaszwozniak@fosstodon.org

Will the election-year budget lead Labor to victory? - have a look at my Australian budget overview in Polish for SBS Radio Polska!

We look at:
the global and domestic circumstances
Labor's gambit away from a coalition government with the Greens
LOLing at liberals by announcing a tax cut first
cost-of-living mitigating measures
continuation of the Future Made in Australia
how unlikely it will satisfy anybody fully

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/polish/pl/podcast-episode/czy-budzet-przedwyborczy-prowadzi-partie-pracy-do-zwyciestwa/d30x8kczv

Dr Tomasz Woźniak, ekonomista z Uniwersytetu w Melbourne, komentuje przedwyborcze założenia budżetowe rządzącej Partii Pracy w Australii.

SBS LanguageCzy budżet przedwyborczy poprowadzi Partię Pracy do zwycięstwa?Dr Tomasz Woźniak, ekonomista z Uniwersytetu w Melbourne, komentuje przedwyborcze założenia budżetowe rządzącej Partii Pracy w Australii.

#auspol #budget

**Kim Perales** @KimPerales@toad.social · 3d *

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Kim Perales @KimPerales@toad.social

House CMTEs will be asked to cut at least $2T in spending from safety-net prgms. Senate CMTEs might be directed to find a few billion$ in saving -possible to write a final pkg can bridge the diff.

Many conservatives: once a #budget with bare-bones Senate instructions is approved, ldrs will ultimately settle on a less ambitious pkg of cuts -relying on Trump -to muscle it through. HSE House would simply waive its more ambitious budget targets in the rule.
#Austerity #USPol https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/30/gop-budget-house-vs-senate-00258076

**Mark** @mark_melbin@mastodon.online · 3d

Mark @mark_melbin@mastodon.online

#Insiders is usually very good at ignoring 9 years of #LNP failures, but the stupidity of Liberal Party senator James Paterson broke David Speers.

#budget #inflation #Election2025

**Police State UK** @PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk · 5d

Police State UK @PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk

"Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech, delivered on Wednesday 26th March, laid out a series of welfare cuts and a hefty boost to defence spending, but little in the way of support for local authorities."

"London boroughs receive around 28% less funding per person compared to 2010."

#UKPol #Budget #London #Councils

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/london/london-councils-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-disappointed-funding-reform-was-not-in-rachel-reeves-spring-statement/

Southwark News · 5dLondon councils on the ‘brink of bankruptcy’ disappointed funding reform was not in Rachel Reeves’ Spring statementBy Sebastian Mann - Local Democracy Reporter

**Catherine Schmidt** @lillyfinch@mstdn.social · 5d

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics ##alt #budget #musk #elonmusk #doge #oligarchy #HHS #FEMA #CDC #FDA #Grants #Moem
Heather Cox Richardson Eliminate FEMA, CDC, EDUCATION, HHS, Grants
3/27/25

Heather Cox Richardson Eliminate FEMA, CDC, Eliminate EDUCATION, HHS, Grants
3/27/25
In a televised Cabinet meeting on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she planned to “eliminate FEMA," the Federal Emergency Management Agency that responds to national emergencies like hurricanes. This news comes on top of Trump's executive order last week calling for the Department of Education to be shuttered, along with cuts of about half of its workforce. Yesterday, Apoorva Mandavilli, Margot Sanger-Katz, and Jan Hoffman reported in the New York Times that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has suddenly cancelled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states. That money supported mental health services, addiction treatment, and programs to track infectious diseases. Today HHS announced it will be cutting 10,000 employees on top of the 10,000 who have already left and the more than 5,000 probationary workers who were fired last month. These cuts will include 3,500 full-time employees from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and 2,400 employees from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

**Catherine Schmidt** @lillyfinch@mstdn.social · 5d

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics # #fascism #corruption #alt #budget #musk #elonmusk #doge #oligarchy #socialsecurity
Heather Cox Richardson Destruction of Social Security Accelerating
3/27/25

Heather Cox Richardson Destruction of Social Security Accelerating
3/27/25
Cuts to the government have led to the Social Security Administration’s website crashing four times in ten days this month, and there are not enough workers to answer phones. Yesterday, Sahil Kapur and Julie Tsirkin of NBC News reported that lawmakers, including Senate Finance subcommittee on Social Security chair Chuck Grassley (R-1A), have been kept in the dark as the men working for DOGE have cut SSA phone services and instituted new rules requiring that beneficiaries without access to the internet prove their identity with an in-person visit to an SSA office. Washington Post reporters Lisa Rein and Hannah Natanson warn that “Social Security is breaking down.” Senator Angus King (I-ME) told them: “What's going on is the destruction of the agency from the inside out, and it's accelerating.... What they're doing now is unconscionable.”

**Catherine Schmidt** @lillyfinch@mstdn.social · 5d

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics #signal #fascism #corruption #alt #budget #musk #elonmusk #doge #cuts #oligarchy
Heather Cox Richardson DOGE No Savings Cuts
3/27/25

Heather Cox Richardson DOGE No Savings Cuts
3/27/25
Far from saving money for the United States, as Jacob Bogage at the Washington Post reported on March 22, billionaire Elon Musk's “"Department of Government Efficiency” has cost the government $500 billion, 10% of what the Internal Revenue Service took in last year. Bogage reports that the administration has demolished the IRS, firing nearly 20,000 employees, especially in the divisions that focus on enforcement, and dropping investigations of corporations and the richest taxpayers. Officials project that these changes will result in more tax evasion, and they are expecting a sharp drop in tax revenue this spring.

If the administration is working not to save money but rather to destroy the government, the cuts that threaten the well-being of American citizens make more sense. Today, Emily Davies and Jeff Stein of the Washington Post reported that Trump officials are looking for cuts of between 8% and 50% of the employees in federal agencies. They obtained an internal White House document that calls for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to be cut in half, the Interior Department to lose nearly 25% of its workforce, and the Internal Revenue Service to lose about one third of its people. The Justice Department is set to lose 8% of its workforce, the National Science Foundation 28%, the Commerce Department 30%, and the Small Business Administration 43%.

**Morpheus Being** @MorpheusB@aus.social · 5d

Morpheus Being @MorpheusB@aus.social

#auspol #Economy #Budget #Election2025

Time will tell how true this is. I not real happy, could have done a few more, really beneficialoves, but overall good, given the amount of debt and structural problems inherited from 10 years of damage bt #LyingNastyParasites.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/editorial--stephen-koukoulas-labors-2025-26-budget-is-close-to-pitch-perfect,19569

Independent AustraliaEDITORIAL — STEPHEN KOUKOULAS: Labor's 2025-26 Budget is close to pitch-perfectThe Budget's current settings indicate favourable conditions and an enviable economic outlook, writes Stephen Koukoulas.

**beSpacific** @bespacific@newsie.social · 5d

beSpacific @bespacific@newsie.social

Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS

**Pauline von Hellermann** @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · 6d

Pauline von Hellermann @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green

Really worth watching this clear analysis of Reeves’ Spring Statement, showing that it is deeply flawed. It hinges on maintaining high interest rates to attract foreign investors, but this will in effect bankrupt the UK economy

#UKPolitics #SpringStatement #Budget https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy/114233131738005285

mas.toRichard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy@mas.to)Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement either doesn’t add up, or it reveals a deeply dangerous economic policy, and it may do both. https://youtu.be/kdtKbjtIp4s?si=VBy9YcsMoBK9KB6a

**BakersRelay** @BakerRL75@m.ai6yr.org · 6d

BakersRelay @BakerRL75@m.ai6yr.org

#FLPol #Florida #Budget

From AP.com: Florida lawmakers defy DeSantis in rift over state budget

https://apnews.com/article/florida-legislature-budget-vetoes-desantis-1d2409faa657dde7f954daf96d90ed81

**David Palk#RejoinEU** @Palky55@mas.to · 6d *

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David Palk#RejoinEU @Palky55@mas.to

#SpringStatement Honest, our future is safe in the hands of Rachel from accounts & Starmer from the Tory shires.
#UKPolitics #Economics #Budget #Taxes #Benefits #Reeves #Starmer #Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/26/reeves-accused--balancing-books-back-of-uk-poorest-spring-statement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The Guardian · Mar 26Rachel Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorestBy Heather Stewart

**EV not Petrol** @samhkennedy@aus.social · Mar 26 *

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EV not Petrol @samhkennedy@aus.social

Tax cuts for people earning less then 40k or whatever the second bracket is vs people who own 2-4 cars and probably not in that tax bracket. My gut feeling is this is just a #fossilfuel handout. #lnp #budget #theguardian #emilywind
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Angus Taylor says Coalition would repeal Labor tax cuts in favour of ‘temporary, targeted’ cut to petrol prices https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/mar/27/australia-politics-live-fuel-excise-cost-of-living-tax-cuts-salmon-election-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

the Guardian · 6dAustralia politics live: Peter Dutton promises ‘significant funding commitment’ to defence during election campaignFollow live