(CNN)-- Two weeks after the bruising standoff
ended over government spending and the debt limit, the House and Senate this week are taking the final steps to formally allow the debt ceiling to rise.
Not exact matches
According to a
Government Accounting Office study, the U.S. Air Force
spent $ 3.3 million on drug interdiction, using sophisticated AWACS surveillance planes
over a 15 - month period
ending in 1987.
But where it starts getting very dangerous indeed is
over the size of
government debt, which stood at under # 500bn in 2006, but which, even after all the pain of the
spending cuts, will stand at the
end of this Parliament at a whopping # 1.5 tn.
What unites all members of the Reform Party is our drive for clean, responsible
government, a balanced budget and an
end to the runaway
spending that has pushed our national debt to
over $ 12 trillion.
«We formed the Senate majority coalition because we believe that it is the best way to continue to build on the progress we've made
over the last two years in
ending government dysfunction, bringing
spending under control, enacting a property tax cap and helping businesses create new jobs.
Republicans are not the only ones who could face political consequences
over a potential
government shutdown if lawmakers do not strike a deal on
spending and immigration by the
end of the week.
Trump complicated negotiations
over end - of - year
spending legislation by rejecting the possibility of including immigration protections — setting up a likely clash with Democrats that could lead to a
government shutdown.
In a statement today by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale, the organization said: «Nigerians should have some sense of what it is the
government is doing in our name, especially against the background of the declaration by the authorities that the anti-insurgency war has
ended and the Boko Haram terror group defeated, as well as the unresolved questions on how
over $ 2bn was
spent by former Jonathan administration to fight Boko Haram.
After one austerity - related announcement in 2011, when the
government announced steep
spending cuts, suicides surged by
over 35 percent, an increase that was then sustained through to the
end of the study in 2012.
The
government now says it will
end up
spending more than # 24 billion
over the course of the parliament on school capital funding.
Analysts at First Data Corporation say that consumers began
spending significantly more toward the
end of the month, after the U.S.
government was reopened and the impasse
over the federal debt ceiling was temporarily resolved.