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Former Gov. Nikki Haley spent more than $114 million during her Republican primary bid against former President Donald Trump to only win Vermont and Washington, DC, Federal Election Commission (FEC) data from the latest report on February 2 shows. Haley will drop out of the Republican presidential primary race on Wednesday, sources told multiple media outlets, handing Trump the GOP nomination. Trump’s third GOP nomination represents one of the great political comebacks in the history of politics.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley spent $31 million in New Hampshire to place second in the Republican primary. The massive amount of money spent on losing the Granite State indicates how strong former President Donald Trump’s grassroots support is in the state. It also suggests Haley wasted money on challenging Trump, who spent $15.8 million defending against her globalist attacks.

The city paid big bucks for two posh, gas-guzzling new SUVs to escort Mayor Eric Adams and other top officials around town — even though the bike-boosting pol once vowed to pedal to work “all the time.” City Hall added a gleaming black Lincoln Navigator with tricked-out rims and a Chevrolet Suburban High Country with 420 horsepower to its fleet of department cars, for a combined total of at least $157,000, The Post has learned. Adams’ gets carted around daily in the High Country, which has an abysmal gas mileage of just 14 mpg in the city. The pollution-spewing Navigator...

President Joe Biden returned to his home in Delaware on Tuesday, marking his 49th trip to the state as president. The president left for home again on Tuesday afternoon after signing his green energy spending bill. Biden has now spent a record 150 days at home in Delaware in the 18 months since he was elected president, according to former CBS correspondent Mark Knoller, easily beating recent presidential records.

Brussels is pouring nearly £20million a year from its human rights budget on lecturing the Americans on left-wing causes. The EU Human Rights Fund is intended to help promote Western values in the developing world. But a shock report has found at least £17million of cash – around £2million from British taxpayers’ – has been ploughed into promoting the pet causes of Eurocrats in the U.S. It is being spent on promoting abolition of the death penalty, discussion of climate change, green energy, and the International Criminal Court – all controversial subjects in the U.S. The study by the Heritage...

Return trip on Air Force One costs up to $1million £63,000 to fly Michelle and daughters to Hawaii $134,000 for 24 White House staff to stay at hotel President Obama has splashed out more than $1.5million on a sunshine break in Hawaii while many Americans are still struggling in the aftermath of the economic meltdown. With Washington in a deep freeze, Mr Obama yesterday extended his stay on Oahu until next Monday. But he is facing claims on the island that he could have been more frugal in his two-week getaway with wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha at...

Dallas Morning News: The state received millions of federal dollars from the economic-stimulus package to help poor Texans cut their energy bills, but by the end of last month, just seven homes had been weather-treated under the program. The state has spent $1.8 million of $163 million available over the past four months, with most of it going to administrative costs, such as the salaries of state workers.

Gov. Schwarzenegger came to office in 2003 promising to "blow up the boxes" and offering a vaguely supply-side agenda. On Monday, he announced his annual May revision of his fiscal year 2007-08 budget, and nary a blown-up box could be seen. Rather, the governor has decided to keep most of the bloated state budget's boxes intact, and thus mollify the moderate middle of the electorate. The governor is anticipating that next year's General Fund -- funded by income, corporate and sales taxes ---- will be $103.8 billion, up slightly from earlier estimates. This year's General Fund was about $102 billion,...

Shelby Monroe, a reporter embedded with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, stands in front of an overturned truck that had been found filled with explosives near Tal Afar, Iraq. Courtesy photo by Shelby Monroe Reporter Spends 101 Days with 101st Airborne Tennessee reporter embeds with 101st Airborne to report on soldiers' stories. By U.S. Army Capt. Lyn Graves 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment KIRKUK, Iraq, July 3, 2006 -- Spending 101 days with the 101st Airborne Division in the heat of north-central Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom is not what some journalists would call a...

Britain spends too little on its forces, says poll By Michael Smith and Andrew Sparrow (Filed: 23/08/2004) The majority of people believes that the Government is spending too little on defence and that the Armed Forces are overstretched and under-equipped, says an opinion poll conducted for the Telegraph. Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, is widely blamed for the state of the forces, with only 14 per cent of those polled believing that he is doing a good job. Only 18 per cent believe that Labour can be trusted to support the forces. Half of those questioned in the YouGov poll...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - California is set to spend more than $14 million on new river parkways and open land in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges under the budget signed Saturday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. But Schwarzenegger sliced the nearly $50 million sought by Senate leader John Burton, D-San Francisco, because the two new programs will start halfway through the budget year. It was unrealistic to expect to spend all the money in just six months, budget officials said. The now-$4.15 million mountain program is contingent on legislative approval of a new Sierra Nevada Conservancy, a sweeping new government...

<p>Even as school districts are warning thousands of teachers that they might be laid off this fall, California is still spending millions of dollars to lure new teachers to the profession through programs created at the height of what state officials once thought was going to be a decadelong teacher shortage.</p>