The Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa, stated this Thursday that the Lula government is studying a way to block around R$11 billion reserved by Congress for the payment of parliamentary amendments in the 2026 budget.
“There is a defined rule, including by full judgment of the STF, which defines the volume of amendments and how these amendments can grow. Everything that is outside of what was agreed will not be executed. The form of non-execution, we are discussing: whether it is a veto, whether it is a blockage of the resource, relocation, but it will not be executed beyond what was agreed, which is legally combustible. Something around R$ 11 billion is above what was legally foreseen and what was agreed upon”, Rui Costa told journalists after an event held at the Palácio do Planalto over the three years since the coup attacks of January 8, 2023.
The minister refers to the agreement made between Congress and the Executive still in 2024 that growth related to parliamentary amendments would have to be subject to the fiscal framework, and that, therefore, it could only be corrected for inflation and a real increase of, at most, 2.5%.
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Congress approved the 2026 budget in the last session of 2025, on December 19, with an estimated expenditure of R$6.5 trillion and a surplus of R$34.5 billion in government accounts and a reserve of approximately R$61 billion for the payment of parliamentarians’ amendments, a value that, according to the Lula government’s accounts, exceeds the forecast by R$11 billion.
