{"id":370217,"date":"2026-02-16T21:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370217"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:54:45","slug":"senator-grills-gallagher-on-114-billion-savings-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370217","title":{"rendered":"Senator Grills Gallagher on $114 Billion Savings Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the 2026 Senate Estimates exchange, Gallagher admitted she lacked the net savings figure on hand, describing the amount as gross savings redirected to new priorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics, including Paterson, call this misleading since overall spending has risen $142 billion under Labor, with every saved dollar spent elsewhere plus extra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Simply extraordinary exchange with the Australian Finance Minister Katy Gallagher &#8216;How have you saved the money if you spent it?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have that figure right now, I don&#8217;t have that figure right now&#8221; She actually makes the UK Chancellor Rachael Reeves look competent when talking about Australia&#8217;s finance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These Far Left Communist Politicians deployed to destroy countries, are not only evil, they are completely incompetent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"400\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 320 \/ 400;\" width=\"320\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EXXnQukly1oDQXMm.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The clip drew sharp online mockery of Gallagher&#8217;s responses, while Labor points to back-to-back surpluses and lower projected debt peaks as proof of fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clip drew sharp online mockery of Gallagher&#8217;s responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":370219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[8775],"class_list":["post-370217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-katy-gallagher"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370220,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370217\/revisions\/370220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/370219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}