Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies passed the federal spending plan 358–133 with no abstentions, endorsing the executive’s proposal without changes at this stage, according to Budget Committee chair Merilyn Gómez.
- Total net spending is set at roughly 10.19 trillion pesos, a 5.9% real increase, with 69.6% programmable (7.94 trillion) and 30.4% non-programmable (3.09 trillion), and debt service accounting for 50.7% of non-programmable outlays.
- Functional shifts include a cut to National Security (-3.7% real) and a 17.6% increase for Public Order and Interior Security, with health up 5.8% to about 966 billion pesos and education up 3.6% to roughly 1.1 trillion.
- Recreation and culture would fall by 1,968 million pesos (-11.9%), tourism by 24 million (-2.1%), and transport by 4,115 million (-5.2%), while lawmakers highlighted over 343 billion pesos for public security and justice functions.
- Opposition parties denounced the plan as centralist and debt-fueled, citing a projected deficit of 4.1% of GDP and alleging cuts to public security, as ruling-party deputies defended it as a social budget that maintains programs for an eighth year.