Nicola Willis revealed in Parliament that Winston Peters' ministery isn't required to cut its spending.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has again been exempt from funding cuts in this year's Budget, with the Finance Minister confirming it wouldn't be made to find savings until after the election.
On Tuesday Nicola Willis made a pre-Budget announcement that public service jobs would be slashed by about 14 percent over the next three years in a shake-up that is expected to deliver $2.4 billion in savings.
The cost-saving exercise amounts to 8700 jobs being cut by mid-2029, alongside a greater use of AI and the merger of an unknown number of ministries and government departments as part of a trimming down of the public service.
It also includes baseline funding reductions for some ministries of two percent for the coming year, and five percent for the two years after.
