The Congress-approved spending package at the end of last year will help reduce expenses by 2025 by about $ 34 billion, said Finance Minister Fernando Haddad. Of this total, R $ 19 billion will come from effective spending economies and R $ 15 billion will serve to cover new spending pressures.
The minister presented the new estimate when returning from the meeting of the Budget Execution Board (Jeo), in the Planalto Palace. In addition to Haddad, Jeo brings together planning and budgeting ministers Simone Tebet; of the Civil House, Rui Costa; and management and innovation in public services, Esther Dweck.
By presenting the package at the end of November, the government had announced that the economy by 2025 would be around R $ 30 billion: R $ 15 billion of effective spending cuts and R $ 15 billion to cover new spending pressures, as Vegetative growth of the number of social programs beneficiaries, program extensions and discharge of inflation.
According to Haddad, the new numbers will be presented to Senator Angelo Colonel (PSD-BA), rapporteur of the 2025 budget bill. “In fact, just over $ 19 billion were spared. Today, I saw the account closed by planning. So we will bring this account to the rapporteur, ”said Haddad.
Without being approved at the end of last year, the 2025 budget project should be voted on by Congress after Carnival. The government will have to send a modifying message to the mixed budget committee to include the new numbers.
The Jeo meeting on Tuesday, Haddad explained, aimed to readjust the 2025 budget project to the spending package approved in December by Congress. “We have to adjust the budget to the laws that were approved after the project was referred to maintain a balanced budget piece. From the point of view of post-entrance pressures, pressures of expansion of some program, due to the law, and the measures that Congress approved, ”he said.
Sick
The minister again commented on the blockade of $ 6 billion in the program foot. According to Haddad, the government is confident of an agreement to reverse the measure after Monday’s meeting with the Minister of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) Augusto Nardes.
“I believe the conversation that happened was good. We present our arguments about the validity of the law approved almost unanimously in Congress, but we are willing to listen to technicians and ministers to adapt, if it is the need. But there is an approved law that is being fulfilled, ”he said.
After the meeting with Haddad on Monday, Nardes said the government You will have to adjust the 2025 budget To unlock her foot, a program that pays $ 2,000 per high-income student from high school. This Wednesday (12), the TCU Plenary must judge the appeal of the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) that calls for the release of appeals, but there is the possibility of an agreement because the TCU will “modulate” the decision of January.
Through modulation, the TCU can, for example, postpone the beginning of the obligation to pass the funds of the Step Foot by the National Treasury Account. The requirement may begin to be applied after the 2025 budget approval. Originally, the economic team argued that the program will enter the budget only by 2026.
