The Joint Budget Commission (CMO) approved this Tuesday (8) amendments to the draft Annual Budget Law (LOA) for 2023.
The amendments approved and which are now included in the budget, allocate R$ 1.5 billion to the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu 192); R$ 950 million to promote the agricultural sector and family agriculture; BRL 500 million for the completion of a stretch of the Transamazon Highway between Altamira and Rurópolis (PA) and BRL 400 million for basic health care.
The CMO also decided to change, for the third time, the deadline for processing the LOA 2023 project (PLN 32/2022). The Commission now has until November 16 to hold public hearings and expects to vote on the revenue report by November 23. All standing committees of the Senate, House, and Congress can introduce their own amendments to the Budget.
The publication of Senator Marcelo Castro’s final report is now scheduled for until December 5th and the vote on this report in the Commission will be on December 7th. The final vote on the 2023 Budget in session of Congress was unchanged and remains scheduled for December 16.
Family Scholarship
On Tuesday night, the vice president-elect, Geraldo Alckmin, met with members of the commission. In a press conference before the meeting, Alckmin stated that budget recomposition to ensure the maintenance of social programs and public services is a priority of the government transition team.
Alckmin said that, in the next few days, the definition will come out to restore the Bolsa Família funds of R$ 600 (another R$ 150 for families with children) and for donations for education, health, works and public services.
The transition team discusses whether the authorization to exceed the spending ceiling by around BRL 175 billion would come through a proposed amendment to the Constitution or through a provisional measure that guarantees extraordinary credits (outside the ceiling) with authorization from the Court of Union and Justice Accounts.
For the vice president-elect, the social issue is the most important right now. “What is most urgent is the social question. Guarantee the Bolsa Família of R$ 600. Implement the R$ 150 for families with a 6-year-old child. Because? Because, if we are going to identify absolute poverty, hunger, where the social issue is more serious, affects this family with small children more”, he declared.
*With information from the Senate Agency
