Even before Bruno Le Maire announced his 10 billion savings plan for the 2024 budget, the general rapporteur LR of the budget in the Senate had drawn out:
“The government is choosing a large-scale camouflage operation.
France's public accounts are in the red (…).
I’m furious,”
Jean-François Husson scandalized this Saturday in a tweet.
“Nothing has changed since the fall, we repeated to the government for weeks that the forecasts were too optimistic and the savings insufficient, they didn't want to know anything,”
he confided to Le
Figaro
a few days earlier.
Indeed, while Bercy prides itself on having
“acted quickly”
to correct the overly optimistic growth forecasts of the 2024 budget, some – even the majority – think that this revision could have happened well before.
“For several months, this adjustment has been predictable,”
notes Jean-René Cazeneuve, Renaissance budget rapporteur at the Assembly, in a press release following…
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