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Budget cuts: savings are causing the majority to sway

2024-03-12T18:14:12.219Z

Highlights: Bercy's need to reduce public spending leads to tensions and tensions in the corridors of power. With the decree of February 21 reducing 10 billion euros from the 2024 budget, the Ministry of Culture toasted. “It’s better to cut off a finger now than an arm in six months,” the Prime Minister justifies more seriously to the members of his government. Besides the fact that the Renaissance deputies discovered this 10 billion coup while listening to Bruno Le Maire on the TF1 news on February 18, they have "the feeling that we have made fun of them", underlines one of them.


Bercy's need to reduce public spending leads to tensions and tensions in the corridors of power.


With the decree of February 21 reducing 10 billion euros from the 2024 budget, the Ministry of Culture toasted.

But faced with Gabriel Attal, who had just hit the headlines with photos of his dog Volta, Rachida Dati took shelter behind a joke: “I'm going to transform your dog into a kebab!

»And the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, said: “I will make spring rolls!”

» But the affair is, in reality, nothing like a joke.

“It’s better to cut off a finger now than an arm in six months,” the Prime Minister justifies more seriously to the members of his government.

Enough to dampen the mood in the ranks.

The method, at first, raised eyebrows.

Besides the fact that the Renaissance deputies discovered this 10 billion coup while listening to Bruno Le Maire on the TF1 news on February 18, they have "the feeling that we have made fun of them", underlines one of them. 'them.

“Not only are we not voting on the budget because of 49.3.

But, in addition, we are putting 10 billion euros of savings behind us by decree,” denounces another.

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Source: leparis

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