Spending watchdog refuses to sign off ‘inadequate’ public sector accounts A lack of clarity on local government spending due to a backlog in audits led to an unprecedented decision by the ...

Critics say the measures include excluding some spending from review by the state comptroller and passing "lump sum" appropriations that will be divvied up after the budget was approved.

Using county-level public finance data for the period 1972–2012, we estimated the impact of local public hospital spending and nonhospital health spending on all-cause mortality in the county.

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that the U.S. economy may slow as it transitions away from public spending towards more private spending ...

France's court of auditors has provided the first official estimate of public spending tied to the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics, with the global public expenditure estimated at nearly six ...

Germany's public spending ratio - which tracks government expenditure against gross national product - rose to 49.5% in 2024, due to an increase in welfare and social expenditure, the country's ...

The government’s £2bn spending plans will cover ‘little more’ than basic pay increases for existing staff, police chiefs have warned ...

Champagne stated his intention to reduce program spending by 7.5% for the 2026–27 fiscal year, by 10% in the second year, and ...

The White House is proposing average cuts of 35% to agencies — except for the Pentagon and Homeland Security. Actual spending cuts though are up to Congress.

But the danger now, as our public finances deteriorate, is that Labour follows its ideological nose and raises both spending and tax rates even more, killing more enterprise and sending more heavy ...

The official audit watchdog has refused to sign off the Government’s spending figures for the first time due to inadequate scrutiny of local authorities’ finances. Severe backlogs in the ...