General debate on the budget: Merz and Scholz exchange heated blows. Merz terminates all cooperation with the government, the Chancellor speaks of “cowardice”.
“If you are ever criticized, then you are a mimosa,” shouts the Chancellor. ‘That’s how the AfD would argue, especially because of the traffic lights,’ complains Health Minister Karl-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. "I have never seen so much cowardice before the one before the other," says Merz.