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Another cut in CISA budget for 2027, 707 million less.
#cisa #us #cybersecurity
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Defense spending would surge to its highest level in decades under a budget proposal put forward by the Trump administration on Friday,
while other government programs would face cuts totaling 10%.
The document prepared by the White House office of management and budget (OMB) is a starting point for negotiations that will probably occupy Congress’s appropriators in the coming months -- and is unlikely to be enacted in full.
But it nonetheless serves as a signal of Donald Tr…

Trump budget would cut TSA funding, require privatization at small airports (Fiona Bork/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5815507-trump-budget-proposal-tsa-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p115#a260403p115

[OT] Nature: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7?error=cookies_not_supported&code=d7824397-f134-4f13-a123-8b1b2a61bec9

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Apple's MacBook Neo uses an A18 Pro that launched in the iPhone 16 lineup, alongside 8BM of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued the 12" MacBook in 2019 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/886496/apple-march-2026-ev…

Apple launches budget-friendly MacBook Neo powered by an iPhone chip
Apple is releasing a new budget Mac called the MacBook Neo, featuring entry-level specs and running on an A-series iPhone processor.

The Trump administration officially sent Congress its 2027 budget proposal on Friday,
And while the largest story that emerged from the mammoth document was that the president is looking to
increase defense spending over 40 percent to a staggering $1.5 trillion,
there are plenty more budget adjustments to laugh/shudder/weep over.
Among the social and health programs Trump is looking to cut in order to fund his bloodlust is the
National Institutes of Health,

Trump Suggests Decimating NIH to Give Military Even More Money
The president is asking Congress to severely cut the health agency’s budget.

Oh the Americans want to increase their war budget by a few bucks, just a mere increase of ~40 percent. Germany also proudly moved to the top 5 of #military spenders worldwide. But money’s scarce y’all.
Can we have a moonshot beyond virtually shooting at the moon or burying souls for #AI assets?…

Wie er Budget schaffte - Marterbauers Gesellenstück: „Er ließ Maske fallen“ #News #Nachrichten …

Headline: "Trump seeks $1.5tn for defense department in budget request to Congress"
Headline: "White House Seeks 40 Percent Increase in Military Budget"
Let's run some numbers - Each $billion in Federal expenditure costs taxpayers about $3 per person.
$1.5tn is 1500 $billion - which works out to be $4,500 per tax payer.
So trump is asking for $4,500 from each person, each man, each woman, each child, in the US.
Or for a family of 4, that&…

White House Seeks 40 Percent Increase in Military Spending

Trump asks Congress to supersize military budget, slash domestic programs (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/trump-white-house-budget-00857167
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p32#a260403p32

This budget battle over DHS that’s happening in the Senate now — it’s not about accountability or guard rails. It’s about whether a force like this should exist at all in the USA.

Trump regime wants $1.5 trillion per year for its department of war. That's $1,500 billion, i.e. $11,000 per household.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr1q4kjvn2o

Trump seeks massive $1.5tn for defence alongside cuts in domestic spending
The US president's new budget would cut non-defence spending by 10%, partly by slashing domestic programmes.

Not good. The US federal government is hiring fewer and fewer people in cybersecurity roles in the face of budget slashing
Instead of the 75-plus agencies that typically showed up to the in-person fair, roughly 40 agencies were at February’s virtual event.
https://…

CyberCorps grads consider private sector as fed hiring challenges persist
The challenges faced by CyberCorps scholars threaten to upend a program that has shuttled early-career cyber talent to federal agencies for nearly 25 years.

Donald Trump has asked for
$1.5 Trillion tn in defense department funding
in his latest budget request to Congress for the 2027 fiscal year.
This would include a pay increase for most troops,
funds for the president’s missile defense system, the Golden Dome,
and resupplying “critical munitions”.
This comes as the US-Israel war on Iran enters its sixth week.
The White House said today’s budget request builds on the astonishing
$1 Trillion over…

Tells people they don't need college.
Pushes to eliminate the Dept of Education.
Slashes funding to universities.
...now, "Science is a waste of money!"
Trump continues to make America ignorant because the ignorant vote for him.
From: @…

Trump proposes $400M cut to Hanford site cleanup budget | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/state/washington/article315292066.html

Fun little double-header at City Hall. I commented at the SFMTA Board asking them not to approve a version of the Potrero Yard project that eliminates the possibility of 360 affordable homes, for want of $70 million. Then I asked the SFBOS not to repeal the transfer tax on high-valued real estate, which would take $100m a year out of the budget that was intended to fund affordable housing. #sfpol

White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/science/white-house-seeks-56-billion-cut-nasa-budget-2027-2026-04-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p120#a260403p120

On the penny wise, pound foolish side of state budget decisions:

San Quentin among 8 prisons that could lose arts programs
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/san-quentin-william-james-association-prison-arts-programs-lose-funds…

San Quentin among 8 California prisons that could lose decades-old arts programs
The William James Association, which has been in state prisons for half a century, is fighting to keep its classes going

On the penny wise, pound foolish side of state budget decisions:

San Quentin among 8 prisons that could lose arts programs
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/san-quentin-william-james-association-prison-arts-programs-lose-funds…

San Quentin among 8 California prisons that could lose decades-old arts programs
The William James Association, which has been in state prisons for half a century, is fighting to keep its classes going

China has problems, but at least their courts still do the right thing every so often:
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ai-termination-ban-why-chinese-184031008.html

The AI Termination Ban: Why Chinese Courts Just Made It Illegal to Replace Workers with Robots
Chinese courts ruled AI adoption can't justify firing workers, forcing tech companies to budget for expensive transitions that could increase global gadget...

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
#KREMLIN IN PANIC: RUSSIAN REGIONS BUDGET COLLAPSE Vlog 1333: War in #Ukraine

Trump Goes After Federal Programs He Calls 'Woke' in Budget Proposal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/politics/trump-budget-proposal-woke.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p133#a260403p133

Trick mit dem Budget - Mehr Jobs für Ältere? Entlastung hat einen Haken #News #Nachrichten

MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple, and it doesn't look budget with a vibrant display and aluminum body, but the keyboard is a bit flimsy (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops

MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple's $599 laptop feels shockingly great
The most interesting product Apple announced this week was its cheapest and least powerful laptop, the MacBook Neo.

See, this — •this• — is what ICE CBP are actually for under this regime. •This• is why they got a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
It’s nothing to do with immigration. It’s about the would-be dictator having his own private military that:
- can be deployed domestically
- at will
- unbeholden to the UCMJ etc
- or disciplined military culture
- or any accountability whatsoever
- with unpredictably violent behavior
- applied indiscriminately
- to anyone
- so that the entire population is terrified of it
…because for them, the problem with Jan 6 was that the coup wasn’t violent enough and didn’t have enough weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/steve-bannon-ice-immigration-agents-polling-sites-midterm-elections

Weißt du, wie viele deiner Shop-Seiten Google tatsächlich crawlt? Bei den meisten E-Commerce-Projekten: unter 60 %. 🕷️
Google hat ein begrenztes Crawl-Budget pro Domain. Jede Filterseite, jede Session-URL, jeder Parameter frisst davon. Große Shops mit 500.000 URLs haben oft das Problem, dass wichtige Produktseiten wochenlang nicht gecrawlt werden.
Logfile-Analyse zeigt sofort wo das Budget verschwendet wird. Nicht raten – messen.

Stephen Jones Discusses Cowboys Plans to 'Bust the Budget' in Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/when-does-nfl-legal-tampering-period-open-dallas-cowboys-free-agency

White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request (Tony Romm/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/politics/white-house-defense-budget.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.AxeP.d-RZM0WfySBO&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p123#a260403p123

I'm just catching up on the Ontario budget. It's all too predictable but still galling to hear the finance minister respond to Steve Paikin's question about whether there would be any circumstances under which raising taxes would be a good idea with: "can't think of one."
https://youtu.be/zCooBrcCLdM

The current budget bill re: funding for DHS should prohibit ICE and CBP agents from being within at a least a mile of any polling place.
Call your Senators and tell them so.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/dont-let-ice-freeze-voting

Don’t Let ICE Freeze Voting
Guest article by Jay Inslee, former governor of Washington State

Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-cancel/

Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board
Shifting priorities and budget pressures could bring an end to the company’s experiment in independent governance, sources say

Trump requests record-breaking budget of $1.5 trillion for Pentagon (Riley Beggin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/03/trump-budget-pentagon-defense-spending/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzc1MTg4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc2NTcxMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzUxODg4MDAsImp0aSI6ImZlYmI4NThlLWFjZjEtNDg2MS04YTA1LTM3OWE1NWI0OTEwMyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI2LzA0LzAzL3RydW1wLWJ1ZGdldC1wZW50YWdvbi1kZWZlbnNlLXNwZW5kaW5nLyJ9.4isEE_V_kdmqhZhOzrEjg5RUUEIJiArMtdwarPB4ya4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p64#a260403p64

#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders

Apple unveils the $599 MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB C ports, and Touch ID (Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/u…

Cowboys' Jerry Jones ready to 'bust the budget' in free agency with eyes on long-awaited return to Super Bowl

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-jerry-jones-nfl-free-agency/

Neues NASA-Weltraumteleskop Nancy Grace Roman könnte Anfang September starten
Das neue Weltraumteleskop bleibt unter Budget und kann acht Monate früher starten als geplant. Es soll Exoplaneten abbilden und täglich 1,4 TByte Daten senden.

Neues NASA-Weltraumteleskop Nancy Grace Roman könnte Anfang September starten
Das neue Weltraumteleskop bleibt unter Budget und kann acht Monate früher starten als geplant. Es soll Exoplaneten abbilden und täglich 1,4 TByte Daten senden.

"Scotland in reach of first carbon budget targets, says Climate Change Committee"
#Scotland #Climate #ClimateChange

"It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things"
Boomer #Trump voters are gonna get #Medicare cut first... then Trump will cut #SocialSecurity

Trump Requests $1.5 Trillion for Military Spending
The huge proposed increase would be partly offset by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the Trump administration describes as wasteful.

Time is Not Compute: Scaling Laws for Wall-Clock Constrained Training on Consumer GPUs
Yi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28823 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28823
arXiv:2603.28823v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scaling laws relate model quality to compute budget (FLOPs), but practitioners face wall-clock time constraints, not compute budgets. We study optimal model sizing under fixed time budgets from 5 minutes to 24 hours on consumer GPUs (RTX 4090). Across 70 runs spanning 50M--1031M parameters, we find: (1)~at each time budget a U-shaped curve emerges where too-small models overfit and too-large models undertrain; (2)~optimal model size follows $N^* \propto t^{0.60}$, growing \emph{faster} than Chinchilla's $N^* \propto C^{0.50}$, with $\alpha = 0.60 \pm 0.07$ robustly exceeding compute-optimal across all sensitivity analyses; (3)~a \emph{dual U-shape mechanism}: short-budget U-curves arise from compute bottlenecks, while long-budget U-curves emerge from data bottlenecks (overfitting), with an intermediate regime where the U-curve temporarily disappears. These findings have immediate implications for researchers training on consumer hardware, where wall-clock time -- not FLOPs -- is the binding constraint. We release all code, logs, and 70 experimental configurations.
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Secretary of Defense Hegseth testified Wednesday that the defense budget needs to go up to 1.5 trillion dollars. He cited the fact that there are still girls schools in Iran the US has yet to bomb.
I wrote this and a sketch about Captain Ballroom for tonight's This Week This Week in LA. Last This Week This Week for a while, so go see it tonight.
Get tix (or ask me for possible comps):

The Open Fist Theatre Company

NFL Insider Skeptical Jerry Jones, Cowboys Will 'Bust the Budget' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-named-suitor-former-first-round-120-tackle-linebacker-nfl-free-agency

Buried in New York’s state budget are provisions that would require 3D printers to block certain designs, in an attempt to restrict 3D-printed guns.
But.. the details aren’t defined, the tech won’t do what policymakers think it can, and circumvention could be easy…
https://www.eff.org/deepli…

Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing
New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware—software that surveils every print for forbidden designs. This policy would also create felony charges for possessing or sharing certain design files. The vote on the state budget could happen as early as next week, so New Yorkers need to act fast and demand that their Assemblymembers and Senators strip this provision from the budget.

BOFH excuse #376:
Budget cuts forced us to sell all the power cords for the servers.

This is the first time that the U.S. has applied sophisticated genomic techniques to measles,
which largely disappeared from the country a quarter-century ago because of broad vaccine uptake.
Declining vaccination rates, misinformation, and the Trump administration’s budget cuts and lagging response to outbreaks have fueled a resurgence of the disease.
With at least 2,285 cases in 44 states, 2025 was the worst year for measles in more than three decades.
This year is…

Inside the Effort to Sequence a Thousand Measles Genomes
Understanding the genetics of circulating viruses will determine if the U.S. loses measles elimination status this year.

Trump wants $152 million to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a secure prison (Tami Luhby/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/politics/alcatraz-reopen-trump-white-house-budget
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p124#a260403p124

As usual, I can easily come up with a better headline.
Here's the original:
"Republicans unlock filibuster-skirting power to pump billions of dollars to ICE"
Here's a better version:
"Republicans vote $Billions to fund US Gestapo"
(UPDATE: this headline seems to contradict the headline in the 2nd URL below)

Republicans unlock filibuster-skirting power to pump billions of dollars to ICE
An unrelated revolt over the farm bill almost tanked a White House-backed, two-step plan to end the 10-week-old DHS shutdown.

This is how you judge the Starmer government.
Weapons more important than child health.
No morals. Just panic.
Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid due to 56% budget cut | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardi…

Over 30yrs, immigrants produced a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion, including $6.3 trillion from non‑citizens.
They reduced U.S. budget deficits by about 1/3rd over that period.
- Cato Institute, Libertarian think tank
✅ Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 | Cato Institute

love it.
#newJersey

We choose to go around the moon in this decade and probably that's about it, not because it is easy, but because we already committed the budget several years ago

Trump seeks $152M to rebuild Alcatraz as 'state-of-the-art secure prison' (Sophie Brams/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5815432-trump-seeks-funds-alcatraz-reopening-budget/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p103#a260403p103

Zullen we de verhoging van de hypotheekrenteaftrek schrappen ipv €30 miljoen te bezuinigen op het budget dat gemeenten nodig hebben om mensen die bijstand mislopen actief te benaderen?
#KabinetJetten
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/03/31/kabinet-schrapt-jarenlang-voorbereid-plan-om-mensen-die-bijstand-mislopen-actief-te-benaderen-a4924412?gift_token=4924412~1775606963~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~GUiwu46JNCfifbhZ-EZQ7ooNt2sqturF88pVDllKyxI

Apparemment que la ville de Montréal a cessée de publier les données de comptage vélo par Eco-Compteur Š cause d'un manque de budget? Ouch
Probablement pour ça que notre bot @… est mort
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Zojuist Chris van Dam gehoord op het #radio1journaal … hij is erg boos over het naar nul terug bezuinigen van het budget voor pandemische paraatheid door dit stupide kabinet Evilgoz-1.
Hij heeft volkomen gelijk natuurlijk. De moeite van het terugluisteren waard.

Claude und CoWork von Anthropic machen einen sehr guten Eindruck. Allerdings scheint gerade CoWork das Pro-Budget aufzufressen. Man scheint schnell nachzahlen zu müssen. Das macht es weniger attraktiv. Außerdem arbeitet er nun zum zweiten Mail nicht, obwohl ich nachgeladen habe. Das trügt den guten Eindruck. Bei ChatGPT hatte ich diese Probleme nicht. #Anthropic

Germany public broadcaster Deutsche Welle's 2026 budget shrinks by €21M, prompting the closure of its Greek-language service, cuts to 160 positions, and more (Deutsche Welle)
https://corporate.dw.…

Budget reduction weakens Germany's international broadcaster
The Broadcasting Council and the Administrative Board have, in a joint session with DW, discussed the Budget Reduction Plan.

Budget airlines pitch US government assistance on $2.5 billion relief plan, WSJ reports | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/budget-airlines-pitch-us-government-assistance-25-billion-relief-plan-wsj-2026-04-27/

Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-cancel/

Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board
Shifting priorities and budget pressures could bring an end to the company’s experiment in independent governance, sources say

Cowboys to Franchise Tag WR George Pickens Ahead of 2026 NFL Season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/nfl-insider-skeptical-jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys-will-bust-budget

Kind request for every US citizen to pay $600 for Trump's illegal war in the Middle East, on top of the price increases it causes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/18/iran-cost-budget-pentagon/

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

Why is Russia asking its billionaires to fund a war its $190 billion defense budget should cover? - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/27/russia-oligarchs-war-donations-190-billion-defense-budget/

Sources: Sky's SNL UK costs ~£2M per episode, and has hired a studio on an exclusive basis; a typical British sketch show usually costs ~£300K-£500K per episode (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/snl-uk-episode-budget-2-million…

'SNL U.K.' Budget No Joke at Estimated $2.6 Million Per Episode
Sky CEO Dana Strong has described 'Saturday Night Live U.K.' as a 'major investment in the U.K. comedy eco-system.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p135#a260403p135

Canadian Historical Association president Coates on federal and provincial budget cuts which "have a major impact on our colleagues, on our students who may hope to find work in these fields, and on our abilities to carry out our own research and teaching. The particular historical moment in which we find ourselves, with the threats to Canadian sovereignty... underline the urgency of making available to all citizens the wide knowledge of our past."

„Erbärmlich“ - Budget: SPÖ-Rebell droht sogar mit Marsch auf Wien #News #Nachrichten

IT-Milliarde für die Arbeitsagentur: KI-Offensive und Cloud-Ausbau in Nürnberg
Die BA investiert 2026 fast eine Milliarde Euro in Digitalisierung. Die SAP-Cloud und 32 KI-Tools prägen den Alltag. Ein Job-Projekt bremst das Budget aber aus.

The average retiree household spends roughly $60,000 annually, with housing (36%), transportation (15%), healthcare (13%) and food (13%) taking the largest shares of the budget.
Inflation-adjusted spending typically declines by about 26% between the ages of 65 and 84, but long-term care costs remain a major wild card that standard spending data doesn't capture
Seven out of 10 people turning 65 will need some form of long-term care in their lifetimes,
and two in 10 will…

Myles Garrett Contract News Gives Jerry Jones, Cowboys Green Light To 'Bust Budget' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/myles-garrett-contract-news-gives-jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys-green-light-bust-budget

Idaho considers an 'apocalyptic' choice for disabled people and families (Sara Luterman/The 19th)
https://19thnews.org/2026/03/idaho-medicaid-budget-cuts-disability-programs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p61#a260302p61

The budget version of a cowpie is still a cowpie. I have NEVER seen one of those monstrosities hauling lumber or sheets of OSB. Ugly AND useless...
Tesla Is Dropping a Budget Version of the Cybertruck - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-affordable-budget-cybetruck-cheap-price-features-2026-2

Of course Trump is killing off libraries & museums: He wants every voter as ignorant as his base. And GOP Congress will let him burn it all to the ground.
You did this to yourselves, Trump voters.
▶️ Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board. | News From The States

Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide.But congressional appropriators — who rebuffed similar efforts to gut the agency in fiscal 2026 — expressed little enthusiasm for the proposed cut in interviews with States Newsroom. Groups representing museums and libraries across the country also blasted the president’s proposal.

Australian government chooses the backward way, halving tax on fuel amid a supply crisis.
Keeps demand artificially high, blows a hole in the budget, drives up prices, and reduces supply for poorer countries. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/au

Gelingt Trendwende? - Budget, Impfungen: Das hat die Regierung noch vor #News #Nachrichten

There is no way an organization with a budget the size of Russia’s military run by bosses trying to create an authoritarian secret police will just sit on its hands because 70% of the population thinks they’re bad.
Nobody here in Minneapolis thinks this is over.
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'Fair Share' outpaces other revenues
The Fair Share surtax is a 4% tax on annual income above $1 million in Massachusetts,
which was approved by voters in 2022
The funds are dedicated to public education and transportation.
As of 2026, it has generated over $2.3 billion for these purposes.
The new forecast from the Executive Office of Administration and Finance anticipates that the Commonwealth will collect a total of $44.9 billion in revenue this year,…

'Fair Share' Millionaire Tax Continues to Exceed Expectations - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The Commonwealth's budget office expects that Fair Share tax collections will be $300 million higher in fiscal year 2027.

Stephen Jones Discusses Cowboys Plans to 'Bust the Budget' in Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/prominent-nfl-analyst-doubles-down-bold-dallas-cowboys-prediction

The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/cisa-bud…

Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency's budget by $700 million | TechCrunch
The budget proposal would force CISA to operate with a significantly lower budget than previous years, citing the government's claims that the election misinformation programs were used to "target the President."

GOP setting 'dangerous precedent' with off-limits [budget reconciliation] move — and it may backfire: House Dems - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-reconciliation-immigration/

This clip is extraordinary - and a perfect example of the gaslighting this Administration does.
McMahon is proposing to cut funding to enforce civil rights by 35%.
IT'S IN HER BUDGET IN BLACK AND WHITE.
And she came before Congress and denied it.
Up is down. Down is up.
https://

Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social)
This clip is extraordinary - and a perfect example of the gaslighting this Administration does. McMahon is proposing to cut funding to enforce civil rights by 35%. IT'S IN HER BUDGET IN BLACK AND WHITE. And she came before Congress and denied it. Up is down. Down is up.

NFL Insider Skeptical Jerry Jones, Cowboys Will 'Bust the Budget' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/colin-cowherd-doubts-dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-bold-nfl-free-agency-plans

NFL Insider Skeptical Jerry Jones, Cowboys Will 'Bust the Budget' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/colin-cowherd-doubts-dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-bold-nfl-free-agency-plans

Four GOP senators vote against adding Save America Act to budget package
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5844521-save-america-act-budget-package/

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The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of
$1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year,
the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II.
The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion,
more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries.
The budget proposal also includes deep cuts to social programs.
The Trump administrati…

“A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII
The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion, more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries. The Trump administration’s budget request includes funding for F-35 stealth fighter jets, new warships and President Trump�…

Jerry Jones Makes Dallas Cowboys' NFL Free Agency Vision Clear https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-free-agency-claim-nfl-notice-excite-dallas-cowboys-nation

US House Republicans rejected a bipartisan Senate deal to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
and instead passed their own funding measure late on Friday, extending a weeks-long budget standoff that has disrupted air travel.
The stopgap bill, which proposes funding the DHS in full for eight weeks,
passed by 213 to 203 votes after Republicans in the lower chamber refused to take up a Senate-passed deal that excluded money for Immigration and Customs En…

About the size of a bowling ball,
a plutonium pit is an essential part of a nuclear warhead.
The implosion of these plutonium filled balls in a nuclear weapon triggers the massive explosion and unleashes the weapon’s destructive potential.
Until 1992, American manufactured 1,000 plutonium pits a year.
Now it makes fewer than 30.
Trump wants to change that and he’s willing to throw money at the problem to make it happen.
Trump’s proposed 2027 budget wou…

Trump Wants to Double Production of New Nuclear Weapon Cores
The new proposed budget slashes money for environmental cleanup and calls to double the production of cores for nuclear weapons.

J.J. McCarthy Being Told Not to Do Griddy Only Made Him Want to Do It More https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/stephen-jones-discusses-dallas-cowboys-plans-bust-budget-nfl-offseason

Trump’s economic agenda has created a new level of volatility for the federal budget,
as the Supreme Court ruling against many of his tariffs appeared to create a trillion-dollar hole on Friday morning that Trump quickly said he could fill.
Mr. Trump has reshaped the country’s fiscal situation since he took office last year.
He passed an expensive income tax cut that economists warned could put the already-indebted nation on an even more perilous path.
But he also ins…

Tariff Whiplash Clouds Outlook for Federal Budget
The tariffs thrown out by the Supreme Court had become an important revenue source. President Trump said he could replace that money with other levies.

Cowboys Exec Responds to Jerry Jones’ ‘Bust the Budget’ Free Agency Vow https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/will-mcclay-free-agent-draft-budget-strategy/

Budget Airlines Pitch Trump Administration on $2.5 Billion Relief Plan (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/budget-airlines-pitch-trump-administration-on-2-5-billion-relief-plan-a7135ca6?st=nJRday&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p80#a260427p80

The Senate late Wednesday moved toward adopting a Republican budget blueprint
that would pave the way for a $70 billion increase for immigration enforcement
and the eventual reopening of the Department of Homeland Security.
But first, senators waded through an overnight marathon of rapid-fire votes, known as a vote-a-rama,
that put the two parties’ dueling political messages on vivid display six months before the midterm elections.
Republicans, who are using the…

Senate Adopts G.O.P. Budget, Defeating Democrats’ Affordability Proposals
Republicans pushed through a budget plan with a $70 billion increase for immigration enforcement after an overnight session in which they beat back Democratic proposals aimed at lowering costs.

Russia Put Its Future at Risk by Remaking Its Economy for War
About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine
-- money that does little to support its long-term development
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/world/e

Russia Remade Its Economy for War, but It’s Come at a Huge Cost
About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine, money that does little to support its long-term development.

Senate Adopts G.O.P. Budget, Defeating Democrats' Affordability Proposals (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/senate-gop-budget-immigration.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p55#a260423p55

House GOP leaders scramble to sell Senate's slimmed-down budget with promises of 'Reconciliation 3.0' (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/23/congress/house-republicans-reconciliation-budget-00889081
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p85#a260423p85

Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees (Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-homeland-security-and-the-director-of-the-office-of-management-and-budget/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p95#a260327p95

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
In an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the Iran conflict,
The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than
$200 billion request to Congress
to fund the war in Iran,
according to a senior administration official,

That number would far surpass the costs of the administration’s massive airstrike campaign to date
and …

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

Even as Integrity, the mission moniker for the Orion capsule of Artemis II, ascended into the heavens days ago,
Donald Trump was announcing his intention to slash Nasa’s budget by 23%,
including a 46% cut for space science initiatives.
And the Artemis program that has run years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget offers no guarantees that the next, far harder stages will run as smoothly.
“The path to the lunar surface is open, but the work ahead is gr…

Mamdani proposes cutting NYPD budget, canceling 5K new officer hires (Rachel Wolf/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-proposes-cutting-nypd-budget-canceling-5k-new-officer-hires
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p94#a260218p94