Reducing the cost of the welfare state has been a long-term goal for successive governments, with the Conservatives also looking to cut spending before being ejected from office last year.

The spokesperson said not everyone proves to be able to handle the pressures of the job. The cuts are part of sweeping staffing reductions at agencies across the federal government made by Trump ...

National security concerns and geopolitical dynamics make defense cuts politically sensitive. When you add up all four of these line items, it’s almost 73% of the overall fiscal budget.

"So we are looking at what potential cuts may need to occur if the referendum doesn't pass – and what cuts we should be making just to be as lean as possible." Why? Indian River waited.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has targeted a huge range of programs for cuts, from a few thousand dollars for an ...

The overriding questions of President Donald Trump’s second term are how dramatically he wants to cut government, and how far he’ll be able to go before the courts or Congress stop him.

A New York Times podcast has mocked Musk’s antics as the “useless spending cut theater of DOGE.” But it sells, notes The New Yorker in an article earlier this week. Voters like the idea of ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans’ health ...

President Trump said the head of the Environmental Protection Agency is prepared to implement deep staffing and spending cuts as part of the administration's efforts to downsize the executive ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday cut staffers in its cloud division, according to people familiar with the matter. The reductions affected fewer than 100 people working in sales operations ...