This week — Jack and Sam do their best to predict what Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has up his sleeve for his second, and possibly final, budget statement on Wednesday. They discuss if national insurance or income tax could be cut and what language Mr Hunt might use about money for public services.
Away from the budget — is the toxic mood of Westminster likely to ease at all this week as George Galloway makes a return to the Commons?
Plus, the Rwanda bill in the Lords and Super Tuesday in the US.
<p><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/supremecourt5-scaled-1-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Chief justice pauses order for Trump to pay $2 billion in foreign-aid funding" title="Chief justice pauses order for Trump to pay $2 billion in foreign-aid funding" style="float:right;" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/supremecourt5-scaled-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/supremecourt5-scaled-1-570x570.jpeg 570w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/supremecourt5-scaled-1-500x500.jpeg 500w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/supremecourt5-scaled-1-1000x1000.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night temporarily froze an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would have required the Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid reimbursements for work that has already been done. In a brief order issued...</p>
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PARIS — The relief felt by supporters of French President Emmanuel Macron as election results rolled in late Sunday has been short-lived. While the incumbent…
