"need spending" is not a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use the phrase "need to be spent" instead. For example, "The funds need to be spent on essential supplies."
I also thought he was right to say that we need spending cuts — including in our defense budget.
"For anyone to stand up and say we don't need spending, we don't need help from Washington, that's contrary to what's going on," Mr. Meek said.
Cameron and Osborne will be left as the last austerians, a stranded outpost proving once and for all the lesson of the 1930s: slumps need spending.
"We have a large deficit, and to reduce a deficit you need spending cuts or tax rises, so asset sales are not really helping," he said.
"Of course we need spending cuts and tax rises to get the deficit down," he said, "but, with the flatlining economy sending borrowing up by 10% so far this financial year, it's clearer than ever that you cannot get the deficit down without a plan for jobs and growth which works.
This is the kind of place you end up when you're 17 and need spending money: under fluorescent lights in a big rectangular box with produce at one end, frozen foods at the other, an elevated managers' perch looking down at a row of registers along the front, and a metal pen outside the front door to keep people from walking off with shopping carts.
Quite a bit of money needs spending.
But he made an exception for love, which needed spending.
I was an English major, but I needed spending money.
So inevitably, Mr. Cruz will start holding up bills, standing in the way of needed spending, and blocking nominations.
The White House has some good ideas, including proposals to boost educational achievement and, importantly, to raise taxes for needed spending.
