Overview
- Government-aligned deputies say they will not back the revenue package, denouncing several Assembly-voted taxes as insincere, as the prime minister signals a legal and bicameral 'coffee filter' to remove them.
- The Assembly’s finance committee has now rejected both the revenue and spending sections of the 2026 state budget, with only Socialist members abstaining and no majority in sight for a first-reading vote.
- The Senate opened its Social Security debate with the right–centre majority set to reverse key Assembly changes, notably reinstating the 2023 pension reform and scrapping hikes such as a capital-focused CSG increase.
- Senators aim to pull the social accounts back toward the government’s original deficit target by reviving a one-year freeze on most pensions and benefits while preserving protections for lower pensions and the AAH.
- After a rare rejection of a technical year-end budget bill forced fresh calculations at Bercy, talk is intensifying of fallback routes including a special carryover law, ordonnances or a delayed budget if a CMP deal fails.