Reverse public service cuts
What it actually does
The Greens would cancel the Government's $2.4 billion in planned public service cuts and redirect funding back into the sector, opposing a further 8,700 role reductions. The party says it is the only one campaigning on no public service cuts.
Source: greens.org.nz · 2026-10
The Trump take
“They want to un-cut the cuts? We had DOGE, beautiful DOGE. These people want the opposite of DOGE. I call it GOD-E backwards, it's very bad.”parody
Why it scored this way
Big government
Undoes cuts to the bureaucracy
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Hates it
On the same topics
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Cut spending and foreign aid back to 2017 levels
ACT's fiscal plan would return non-welfare spending to 2017 levels (adjusted for inflation and growth), cut the annual operating allowance from $2.4b to $2b, reduce foreign aid to 2017 levels (excluding aid to Ukraine) and abolish 'demographic' ministries. ACT says net core Crown debt would be $12.4b lower than forecast; health, education, defence, police and children's services are exempt.
Disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority
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