The ACT budget quantifies ‘the Trump effect’ at $2.3m a day. But homegrown decisions are more costly
Donald Trump wouldn’t have a clue — and if he did — he almost certainly couldn’t care less about the state of the ACT’s budget. Yet the US President, arguably more than the territory’s own Treasurer Chris Steel, is very directly adding to the heavy weight dragging on public finances in the nation’s capital. In…