The Chancellor's Spring Statement does not go far enough to support struggling Brits living on the sharp end of the cost of living crisis, Christian charities have warned.
The US government shut down at midnight on Friday after Democrats and Republicans, locked in a bitter dispute over immigration and border security, failed to agree on a last-minute deal to fund its operations.
The Church of England has said that the Chancellor's Budget today 'could have gone much further to help the many at the sharp end struggling to get by'.
Almost nine out of 10 (89 per cent) of British adults say tax avoidance by large companies is morally wrong even if itis legal, according to a ComRes poll for Christian Aid.
Criticisms of the Budget, including from faith leaders and communities in the US, are fascinating because they act as a microcosm of Trump's growing domestic problem: the question of how his reforms are affecting his own voters, including white evangelicals, on the ground in America.
More than 100 Christian leaders are pleading with Congress to reject Donald Trump's cuts to foreign aid after a draft budget showed a 28 per cent spending reduction.
On behalf of the Church of England, the Bishop of Birmingham has responded to today's Budget by calling for 'healing' and warning that the combination of benefits freezes and a rising cost of living is hitting the poorest hardest.
Prime Minister David Cameron has backed his embattled Chancellor George Osborne in a bid to stem a bout of infighting triggered by the resignation of a senior minister.