National, ACT, Te Pāti Māori and the Green Party have given their responses to the government's Budget 2022. "We thought about calling it the bandaid Budget, we thought about calling it the big blowout Budget, but we settled, obviously, on the backwards Budget. He says he hasn't had a chance to get into the detail of the full budget, but the bigger issue is a huge budget blowout. So you're really talking about a $9.5b huge amount of cash that's actually come out and been announced today." "They will be spending thousands more servicing their debt and that's going to make it a lot harder for many people to enter the housing market."

Source: Stuff May 19, 2022 10:23 UTC