The cuts, compared to the original project, contemplate the Senate, the Superior Audit of the Federation, the Judiciary, the Presidency, the Government, the Economy, non-sectorized entities, INE, Cofece, IFT and INAI. Health spending remained the same, since according to Morena, IMSS Bienestar, IMSS and ISSTE already had an increase.
“These reassignments do not prioritize the issue of health, education, security; in the countryside, despite having a reassignment, it is very small, and does not consider the productive field. For health, the vision is very lagging, in addition to the fact that there is a disconnection with In reality, we are far from Denmark’s health system; in Security, with the reassignment to Sedena, little or nothing is done to strengthen the local, state and prosecutor’s offices,” commented deputy Mario Zamora, of the PRI, when giving the position. of his party against.
In the opinion of the 2025 Budget, approved in general, a net expense of 9,302 billion pesos is established, of which, 3,603 billion will be for current spending, while mandatory expenses such as the financial cost of the debt, participations to states , pensions and retirements total 6,046 billion, which represents 65%.
Compared to the original project, 14,984 million pesos are reallocated to Education, specifically to public universities, to which the Project delivered by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit cut 10,268 million. Spending on physical investment also increases, which had also undergone adjustment, but will now have 6,712 million via the Ministry of Communications for improvement, expansion and reconstruction of roads.
“We firmly believe that in this proposal there is a completely continuous spirit and very toxic for Mexican citizens, there are inexplicable cuts in this budget in terms of health for almost 30,000 million pesos (…) we also see with concern the cut of 36,000 million in security matters involved in the worst wave of violence that has been experienced in the country and where this wave of violence has practically left more than 205,000 violent deaths in our country. country in the last six years and we also see with concern the cut to the environment for practically 26,000 million,” said Héctor Saúl Téllez, PAN deputy.
Deputy Mónica Nemer, the Morena Parliamentary Group, highlighted that the analysis of the budget has been carried out since last November 15, when it was delivered by the Treasury, in addition to addressing the priority areas for Mexicans, in terms of health. , education, environment, security, care for women, girls, adolescents, older adults, young people and the countryside.
He detailed that the reallocation of 14,984 million pesos in Education is to strengthen the National Pedagogical University; the Metropolitan Autonomous University; the National Autonomous University of Mexico; National Polytechnic Institute; College of Mexico; Industrial Technical Education Center; the Autonomous Agrarian University; Open and Distance University of Mexico, as well as public and state universities.
