{"id":124694,"date":"2025-11-08T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/124694\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:29:08","slug":"carneys-78b-deficit-pushes-debt-to-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/124694\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney\u2019s $78B deficit pushes debt to record highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!qWox!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9e892d6-30b2-477a-940e-1ed80fcefbbe_1280x720.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/f9e892d6-30b2-477a-940e-1ed80fcefbbe_1280.jpeg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/f9e892d6-30b2-477a-940e-1ed80fcefbbe_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:794256,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.junonews.com\/i\/178329849?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9e892d6-30b2-477a-940e-1ed80fcefbbe_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week on Off the Record, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a federal budget loaded with record spending and a $78-billion deficit. <\/p>\n<p>The Liberals\u2019 industrial carbon tax is quietly expanded in the budget, set to climb to $170 a tonne by 2030, and continuing to rise by undisclosed amounts until 2050. <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa\u2019s gun buyback program will cost taxpayers more than Canada\u2019s funding for NATO operations and border security combined next year, despite the amnesty being extended. <\/p>\n<p>And podcaster Joe Rogan claimed U.S. President Donald Trump \u201cruined Canada\u201d by endorsing Prime Minister Mark Carney, ultimately winning him the election.<\/p>\n<p>Join Kris Sims, Isaac Lamoureux, and Alex Zoltan for these stories and more on Off the Record! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on Off the Record, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a federal budget loaded with record spending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-124694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}