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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-24T21:47:24.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Finance Minister Nicola Willis will deliver the Budget on Thursday. Photo: RNZ   \n\n  \n\nGyles Beckford of RNZ\n\nThe government's 2026 budget is about getting the books in orderThe Middle East conflict is clouding economy, forecasts, income, spendingHigher deficit expected in near term, no surplus until 2030Spending to be constrained and reprioritised, new policy finance negligibleAs much as $10b extra borrowing expectedThe length of the Iran conflict may result in radical rewrite of forecasts/policies in pre-election fiscal update\n\nGovernment budgets invariably get branded - the Black budget of 1958, the Mother of All Budgets in 1991, the Wellbeing Budget of 2019.",
  "title": "Budget about getting books in order"
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