Rapporteur confirms that DF Fund and Fundeb will be removed from the fiscal framework

Senator Omar Aziz (PSD-AM) confirmed this Thursday (15) that he will withdraw from the report of the new fiscal framework the Constitutional Fund of the Federal District and Fundeb, the Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Basic Education, as was already in the original proposal. sent by the Government to Congress.

According to him, the two measures have already been agreed with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), who will have to analyze the project again if the Senate makes any changes to the text. Aziz says that the proposal has not even been discussed at the Economic Affairs Commission (CAE) and has already received more than 50 amendments that will be analyzed one by one in these last days of the week.

The senator explained that the Chamber’s analysis indicated a loss of R$ 1.7 billion in ten years on the DF Fund, but that the Senate has different calculations – for more. However, he did not explain how much this difference would be.

“We don’t have to fight to take money from the DF, we have to fight to give more money to all states. If Brasília’s per capita income is good, great. But I also want a good per capita income in Sergipe, good in Amazonas, in Rio, in São Paulo, for everyone”, he said shortly after a meeting with ministers Fernando Haddad, of Finance, and Simone Tebet, of Planning.

The withdrawal of the two funds from the proposal alters the modifications made by the project’s rapporteur in the House, deputy Cláudio Cajado (PP-BA), who included them in the expenditure growth limit.

Shortly afterwards, Simone Tebet said that the issue of funds is political and should be dealt with in Congress. “The Ministry of Planning is ready to make any necessary adjustments”, she added.

Also according to the minister, the analysis of the IPCA, which is the official inflation index, needs to be correct if it is going to take into account the calculation between the middle and the end of the year, which can generate an impact of BRL 30 billion per R$ $40 billion in the Budget Guidelines Act (LDO) for next year. Aziz says that it is possible that the text takes into account what was found in the months of November and December.

Still according to the senator, the calculations of the Senate commission will be presented to Lira to discuss a new analysis of the project after the vote in plenary. According to the senator, the project should be discussed next week, probably Tuesday (20) in the morning at CAE.