From word to deed… a budget: How are Sheinbaum’s proposals?

Women, scholarships and education

President Claudia Sheinbaum promised bimonthly economic support of 3,000 pesos for women between 60 and 64 years old; However, the PPEF 2025 does not contemplate all women within that age range, since the president has already specified that Support will begin with people aged 63 to 64.

In this first stage, which has already begun registration and resources will begin to be distributed next year, the federal government requested 15,000 million pesos from the Chamber of Deputies.

In the following years, said the president, the “Pensión Mujeres Bienestar” program will cover the ages of 60, 61 and 62 to fulfill what it promised.

The same case is for the Universal Scholarship for Public Education Students. During the campaign he announced that his government would provide support to children and young people in preschool, primary and secondary school, but As president, she corrected.

In July, he explained that in 2025 the scholarship will be awarded to high school students; In 2026, a portion of primary school children will be added and in 2027 it will be universal, since he assured that during the campaign he said that it would take three years to apply it.

This social program is named after Universal Basic Education Scholarship “Rita Cetina”and for this an expense of 78,840.7 million pesos.

Although Sheinbaum promised to expand The School is Ours during his administration and gradually extend the hours of primary schools, the PPEF proposes reducing resources by 15% for next year.

“The School is Ours program will continue and now we will take it to upper secondary education,” Sheinbaum said on October 1 at the Zócalo.

In 2024, the last year of the six-year term of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this program was approved 28,358 million pesosos and, for the following year, an expense of 25,000 million pesos.

This program, which was a priority in the previous government, provides resources to school committees, made up of families of basic education students, so they can decide what to allocate them to. The money can be used to create extended hours in schools, provide food service, improve school equipment or rehabilitate their infrastructure.

Cut in health

In the 2025 Budget Project, a cut is contemplated to the Ministry of Health (SSa) since it is proposed that it go from 96,990 million pesos to 66,693.20 million pesos, a decrease of 34.1% in real terms.

Part of the cut to the SSa goes to the IMSS-Wellbeing, former President López Obrador’s star health program for people without social security. For next year, an expenditure of 174,623 million pesoswhich means an increase of 30.2%, in real terms, compared to the budget of 128,623.93 million pesos approved for this year. However, the money bags only move without a real strengthening of the health budget.

One of the most worrying cuts in the sector is for National Center for Child and Adolescent Health (Censia)in charge of the Universal Vaccination Program as it will have a budget decrease of 68%, in real terms, if the Federal Government’s Budget Project is approved. In 2024, a budget of 14,121 million pesos was approved and For 2025, an amount of 4,657 million pesos is requested.

The decrease is proposed despite the fact that vaccination coverage has fallen in Mexico and although President Claudia Sheinbaum promised to improve access to vaccines.

“From birth, each and every Mexican must have access to vaccines, preventive care, medical care, studies and laboratories, surgeries and free medications to make the right to health effective,” he said when reading his commitment number 41 in the Zócalo. from Mexico City, after being sworn in as president.