USA Today

Texas wants to buy surplus border wall parts but U.S. government ended sales: report

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said U.S.-owned border wall materials, which were available for sale, were pulled from an Arizona auction at the government's request. The Lonestar State had shown interest ...

New Zealand Government Faces Later Return to Budget Surplus

The New Zealand government will head into an election year facing deeper budget deficits and a delayed return to surplus as ...
KGW8

Feds are getting rid of new, unexpired COVID masks at government surplus auction

PORTLAND, Ore. — The federal government is trying to get rid of more than one million new, unexpired N95 and KN95 masks by putting them up for government surplus auction, despite strong demand for the ...

Greek primary budget surplus beats target in January-November period

Greece recorded a central government primary budget surplus of 12.65 billion euros ($14.8 billion) in the 11 months to the ...
AZ Central

Texas wants to buy surplus border wall parts after sale stopped, official says

The lieutenant governor of Texas said unused border wall materials were pulled from an Arizona auction at the request of the U.S. government. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said late Wednesday that Texas ...
Seeking Alpha

U.S. government surplus swells to $307B in February

The U.S.government posted a $307.0B deficit for February 2025, slightly more than the $302.5B shortfall expected and up from the $128.6B it recorded in January, the U.S. Treasury Department said on ...
Reuters

Argentina's Milei touts rare government surplus, argues 'shock' therapy is working

BUENOS AIRES, April 22 (Reuters) - Argentine President Javier Milei boasted on Monday that his government is successfully taming profligate public spending, touting a rare first quarter surplus that ...
Pensions&Investments

Canadian government to transfer $1.3 billion surplus from Public Service Pension Fund

The Canadian government said it will transfer a C$1.9 billion ($1.3 billion) surplus from the Public Service Pension Fund — the pension plan belonging to federal government employees — to the ...
Seattle Times

Seattle’s government surplus is a cut-rate gold mine for resellers

Once or twice a month, Wangi Mugenyi parks his secondhand pickup at the city of Seattle surplus warehouse in the Sodo neighborhood, where the city sells its various castoffs, and searches for his next ...
usace.army.mil

Federal agency gives new life to surplus equipment

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Dec. 8, 2011) -- When old Army equipment becomes obsolete, Soldiers receive new state-of-the-art machines to take their place. But what happens to the old equipment? One Fort Drum ...
Foreign Affairs

Surplus Government Property and Foreign Policy

WHEN a business decides to close down a line of activity it transfers to other departments such assets as are usable and liquidates the remainder at the best price obtainable. But when the United ...