Democrats have slammed Republican president’s proposal for social welfare spending cuts and tax benefits for the rich.

The Senate bill includes $4.5 trillion of net tax cuts, $1.5 trillion of gross spending cuts, and $0.3 trillion of gross ...

The GOP plan slashes Medicaid, SNAP, and other core safety net programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires, mass deportation ...

What does the UK spend on welfare – and how much will it rise? - Spending on pensioners accounts for nearly half of the total welfare budget.

As a chess-player she must recognise that she is stuck in zugzwang: if the bill falls, meeting the fiscal rules gets harder.

In their rush to retain Donald Trump's support for NATO, the alliance's European members have promised to more than double ...

Labour says its controversial plans to cut PIP and universal credit payments will save billions, but others disagree.

Ministers say the benefit reforms will help protect the welfare state for those who need it, but backbenchers warn the plans ...

The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the ...

According to budget documents, specifically the voluminous ‘Details of Demands for Grants and Appropriations 2025-26 (Current ...

The charts that show why Reeves’s spending plans are a fantasy. Szu Ping Chan . Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 1:03 PM 8 min read. ... Welfare spending, which sits outside Whitehall budgets, ...

While the likes of defence will see spending go up, from £23.2bn this year to £33.2bn in 2029/30 – an increase of 7.3 per cent – others will again experience cuts.