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Coup-hit Niger was betting on a China-backed oil pipeline as a lifeline. Then the troubles began
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Finance· 16 hours agoA China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an...
Federal spending for FY2024 will be 'largest' ever outside a crisis, CBO data shows
Just the News· 2 days ago"Spending has grown from 20.9 percent of GDP in FY 2019 to...rising cost of interest payments on the...
This week in Bidenomics: Pile on the debt
Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoAny effort to trim those payments would amount to default and trigger a global financial shock. Other big categories of spending are Medicare and Social ...
Congressional Budget Office projects a $400 billion increase in this year’s federal deficit
WMBD - FOX 43 Peoria· 5 days agoWASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that it projects a federal budget deficit increase of $400 billion or 27% this year, from ...
Karen Bass: Mayor of the city of the eternal future
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoLast month, the City Council approved Bass' $12.8-billion city budget, which cuts 1,700 vacant positions at myriad city agencies. Bass commands respect...
Biden cherry-picks Trump’s words on cutting Social Security
Politifact· 18 hours agoPresident Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have sparred over their plans for Social ...
Labour's 'lack of commitment' on farming puts UK food security on 'edge'
Daily Express· 6 days agoLabour's silence over Britain's agriculture budget is a threat to UK food security and British...
The EU’s fresh designs for funding a defense resurgence, explained
Defense News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt is conceivable, for example, that the mechanism could dole out cheap cash for the...commissioner...
Debt ceiling standoff could trigger US rating downgrade, TD's Goldberg says
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA potential debt ceiling standoff in the United States next year could be one of the worst since the...
Mayorkas signals FEMA prepared for hurricane season, but needs funding
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during an interview with the...