For the wanderlusters this weekend, here is Jennifer Rose Garcia's Guide to Being #Bougie on a #Budget in #Paris, on the @RoamancingReads #podcast on #Castopod! https://podcasts.roamancing.com/@RoamancingReads/episodes/a-week-in-paris-bougie-on-a-budget
Follow along on #Roamancing for the photos: https://roamancing.com/2023/04/a-week-in-paris-bougie-on-a-budget/
Au secours, Bernard Arnault se lance en politique. Le patron de LVMH serait-il inspiré par Musk? Le voilà qui s'aventure comme Rodolphe Saadé ou encore Bolloré dans la sphère publique. L'enfumage de Bayrou sur les finances publiques mais aussi le dernier rétropédalage de Yaël Braun-Pivet, c'est dans les Indiscrets sur @LeMediaTV. Partages appréciés 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBg4sdMbAQo
Internal budget document reveals extent of #Trump’s proposed #health cuts
#HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about ⅓ of its discretionary budget.
The Trump admin is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs, a roughly ⅓ cut in discretionary spending by the HHS, acc/to a preliminary #budget document obtained by WaPo.
#science #medicine #health #PublicHealth #law #Musk #RFKJr
https://wapo.st/42gLz0Z
Admin ofcls recently discussed cutting or canceling out the #vouchers & other #RentalAssistance programs & potentially replacing them with a more *limited* system of #housing grants, perhaps sent to states, acc/to 3 people familiar with the matter…. The overhaul would be included in #Trump’s new #budget, which is expected to be sent to #Congress in the coming weeks.
[Ab]Using the #budget - #reconciliation process, #Republican *lawmakers* are now preparing to lavish #ICE with a colossal #funding increase—enough to pay for the kind of #social & #demographic transformation of the US that #immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving.
I just cooked my last egg. I've been saving it. I made Japanese omurice with rice and omelet and soy sauce (typical) and mirin (not typical)
#food #dinner #yum
Very satisfied
Bye to eggs for a while
*sigh*
#budget #USeconomy
Day 18 cont 
“#Labor and the Coalition (#LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals) are engaging in the most reckless election campaign in living memory, according to #economists who warn the major parties’ #policies will *inflate house prices*, damage the #budget and make the #TaxSystem worse.”
Worth reposting this observation.
A reminder this election a job interview and the winner(s) get(s) to do what they want. You pay for it.
#AusPol / #housing / #HousingEmergency <https://archive.md/LjcH0> / <https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/reckless-election-on-housing-tax-and-spending-20250411-p5lr5o> (paywall)
https://www.alojapan.com/1247896/japans-defense-budget-nears-2-of-gdp-as-trump-pressure-looms/ Japan’s defense budget nears 2% of GDP as Trump pressure looms #2 #budget #defense #gdp #Japan #JapanNews #Japans #looms #nears #news #pressure #trump TOKYO — Japan’s defense budget will rise to nearly 2% of the economy this fiscal year, but the government is likely to face pressure from the Trump administration to expand spending further despite the bump. Japan’s Ministry of Defense reported Tuesday that the share of defense-related sp…
Il a osé le dire: « Nous ne travaillons pas assez », déplore Bayrou lors de sa conférence sur les finances publiques, tout en annonçant du sang et des larmes aux Francais. Ironique, alors que le Premier ministre est taxé de dilettantisme par ses propres troupes et ses alliés… « L’excès de dépense publique ne fait pas le bonheur des peuples », ajoute le chef du gouvernement. Compris, bande de feignasses!
En coulisses, Macron et ses proches poussent le gouvernement à s'attaquer "franchement" au modèle social français. Comprendre, ce qui reste de l'assurance chômage, la "gratuité" des soins ou encore, pourquoi pas, la retraite à... 65 ans, comme l'a proposé Marc Ferracci dimanche sur France 3. De quoi faire toussoter un ministre en poste, qui rappelle que la précédente réforme a mis les Français dans les rues. Pompier pyromane?
https://www.europesays.com/uk/18594/ Investors are dumping bonds. Here’s why that’s a problem. #Bonds #Bonds(finance) #Budget #BudgetDeficit #deficit #Department #Donald #DonaldTrump #Finance #financial #FinancialMarketsNews #Investing #Markets #Negative #News #of #Overall #OverallNegative #stocks #StocksU0026Bonds #the #Treasury #trump #U.S. #U.S.DepartmentOfTheTreasury #u0026 #UnitedStates #us #USA
According to one of my economics comrades the governor's approach would cost the average working WA resident an extra $3861 per year!
Again, all this in an economy where the average American can not afford a $1k unexpected expense.
WA residents will pay nearly $4k more either directly in sales taxes OR indirectly as externalized costs in their everyday lives.
Ferguson is giving us a master class in regressive taxation.
Bad Democrat, no cookie.
WA Governor Bob Ferguson has been putting forth policies more inline with Trump's white house than what you'd expect from a Democrat.
The new governor's policies has been a loud promise to drastically increase the number of cops in the state while at the same time over seeing budget cuts that could shrink social services and cut state worker hours in an economy drowning in rising costs.
https://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article303771221.html
Hiroshi Moriyama, LDP secretary-general, said he will push to submit a supplementary budget this Diet session to fight inflation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/13/japan/politics/moriyama-to-coordinate-extra-budget/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #liberaldemocraticparty #ldp #hiroshimoriyama #budget
Ok, supporters of Agent Orange, It's on you. We'll see how you feel about it all in about 90 days. Take a look at all of the things that you buy that will be affected---just about everything.
You have 87 days. From clothes to electronics and appliances, here’s what you should stock up on before Trump’s tariffs pause ends in July
#tariffs #budget #economics #politics
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/90-days-stock-trump-liberation-151658333.html
#Trump’s #budget proposal, though not yet formally submitted to Congress, would eviscerate a long list of #planetary & #astronomical missions, including the next major #NASA #space #telescope & the agency’s goal of bringing samples of #Mars back to Earth to search for signs of ancient life.
NASA’s #astrophysics budget would take a huge hit, dropping from ~$1.5B to $487M. Planetary #science would see a drop from $2.7B to $1.9B. #EarthScience would drop from ~$2.2B to $1.033B.
#NASA’s #science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of #Trump’s #budget proposal to #Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing & future missions….
The budget plan, sent to NASA by the #RussVought led #OMB, would give NASA’s Science Mission Directorate $3.9B, down from its current budget of about $7.3B….
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