Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies approved the 2026 spending plan in general, totaling 10.193683 trillion pesos, by a 358–133 vote.
- Lawmakers opened the article-by-article phase with 1,733 reservations, as Morena and allies move 12 grouped changes to reassign roughly 17.8 billion pesos.
- Proposed cuts include about 15 billion pesos from the Judiciary, 1 billion from the electoral institute (INE), and 900 million from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), with other autonomous bodies also affected.
- Funds would be redirected to education, agriculture, environment, science and technology, and culture, with increases flagged for public universities and arts and heritage institutes.
- Debate on the specifics turned heated and is expected to run overnight, while regionally Argentina called extraordinary sessions for Dec. 10–31 to take up its 2026 budget and reforms, and Chile’s right-wing opposition rejected the 2026 fiscal plan ahead of elections.