Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers is not considering stepping aside and letting his finance deputy Stephen Jones be sworn into the top job to deliver Tuesday week’s Budget.

Chalmers’ decision to not consider quitting follows scathing criticism by Liberal MP Aaron Violi who used the Sky LNPNews platform (above) for an excoriating, eviscerating, putdown of his efforts as the chief financial-lever puller in almost two years of the Albanese government.

We looked up Violi and he’s been the member for Casey in Victoria since the May 2022 election, succeeding Tony Smith. Now that we know who he is and how important his views are, we can report that Violi said on Sky LNP News that Australia was “paying the price” for two years of inaction by the Albanese government.

The Murdoch Labor-hate-site added: This comes amid discussions of the upcoming budget and criticisms of the current government’s policies.

“They weren’t prepared to make the hard decisions in their first two budgets,” Mr Violi told Sky LNPNews Australia.

“Now we are in this really tricky position where inflation is entrenched at 3.6 per cent.

“They are a dollar short and they are a day late on all the economic challenges that the Australian people face.”

A spokesperson for the current Treasurer said simply: “You’ve got to at least give Jim credit for deciding to carry on regardless. He’d have to know that such stinging criticism from a leading Liberal MP using a platform as respected and admired around the country at Sky LNPNews Australia would normally sound the death-knell for any politician at any level.

“Call him stubbornly stupid and naive if you must but you’ve also got to accept he’s got some spunk. A lesser man would have pulled the plug on his career immediately.”

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