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Explainers on the budget and the accounts, written from the same documents as the rest of the site.

8 November 20264 min read
Ten years of federal spending: what the audited accounts show
From 2016 to 2025 federal spending rose 63.7%, to RM 412.70 bn. Debt charges doubled, subsidies rose fivefold and fell back, and revenue covered the running costs every year.