Overview
- Lawmakers approved both the Income Law and the 2026 Expenditure Budget 39–0 in an early-morning session at an alternate hotel site after a building takeover, with no floor debate and protests from health workers.
- The revenue plan totals 107,884,611,261 pesos, up 9.05% from 2025, with no new taxes and a 3.5% adjustment to fees for Derechos, Productos and Aprovechamientos.
- Temporary measures for January include a 10% prompt-payment subsidy on the annual vehicle registration, a subsidy for public transport licenses, condonation of fines and surcharges, and a 100% “social titling” fee stimulus for certain property paperwork.
- Spending shifts include a 56.6% jump for state health services to 8,468.4 million pesos, nearly doubled funding for the communications office to 240.5 million, and additional resources for security and the state prosecutor’s office.
- Cuts hit the migrant ministry (−45.1%), public works (about −23%), the water commission (−12%), municipal investment (−10%) and urban development (−9.6%), while the Congress raised its own 2026 budget by nearly 24% to about 1.31 billion pesos.