{"id":620088,"date":"2026-04-20T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620088\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:41:10","slug":"trump-says-ceasefire-extension-unlikely-jd-vance-to-lead-us-delegaton-for-pakistan-talks-israel-lebanon-talks-to-be-held-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620088\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says ceasefire extension unlikely; JD Vance to lead US delegaton for Pakistan talks; Israel-Lebanon talks to be held in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino says the federal budget, to be handed down in May, will be \u201cframed by a lot of international uncertainty\u201d, as the war in the Middle East continues to impact economic conditions in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the May budget would implement additional cost-of-living measures to account for increased pressures caused by the conflict, Mulino told ABC\u2019s News Breakfast that \u201cthe government has already stepped in\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cf49ea84d20398bbd6b63bd996ee08332263fde0.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve prioritised a reduction in the fuel excise, and that\u2019s already making a difference for people, and that budget will clearly be framed with a lot of international uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not immune from the fact that the conflict in the Middle East is going to be impacting oil prices for some period of time, and so we\u2019re going to be crafting the budget with tax reform, with cuts to spending in certain areas, and with a responsible fiscal trajectory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino says the federal budget, to be handed down in May, will be \u201cframed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-620088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}