#2024budget — Public Fediverse posts

Germany changes budget deal after farmers’ protests, cuts marine fund https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/germany-changes-budget-deal-after-farmers-protests-cuts-marine-fund/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #2024budget #budgetcrisis #CemÖzdemir #farmersprotests #Germany

Germany changes budget deal after farmers’ protests, cuts marine fund https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/germany-changes-budget-deal-after-farmers-protests-cuts-marine-fund/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #2024budget #budgetcrisis #CemÖzdemir #farmersprotests #Germany

OECD warns France’s deficit projections are too optimistic https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/oecd-warns-frances-deficit-projections-are-too-optimistic/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #2024budget #BrunoLeMaire #deficit #fiscalconsolidation

Germany’s Scholz downplays impact of ‘debt brake’ court ruling https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/germanys-scholz-downplays-impact-of-debt-brake-court-ruling/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #2024budget #ChristianLindner #ClimateandTransformationFund

France’s 2024 budget walks tightrope as excessive deficit procedure looms https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/frances-2024-budget-walks-tightrope-as-excessive-deficit-procedure-looms/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #2024budget #BrunoLeMaire #Energyshield #excessivedeficitprocedure

#House #GOP blocks funds to LGBTQ groups, using #budget for cultural fights

#Republicans denied #funding to three Democratic efforts to assist local groups focused on #LGBTQ #housing & other issues, part of a sprawling #conservative effort to use the #2024budget to advance their social agenda

#Bigots #discrimination #CultureWars #AbuseOfPower #HouseRepublicans #WhiteChristianNationalists #Heterosexism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/20/republican-spending-lgbt-earmarks/

#mapoli Senate has now completed its debate on the #2024budget and after a few procedural formalities, it will go to a conference committee with the House. Eventually there will be a conference report that will probably pass unanimously. I haven't done a line-by-line difference yet (we don't have the final enrolled Senate text) so I don't know how long it's likely to take but it doesn't seem like a lot of contentious issues made it into the budget this year.

Looks like there are 1,049 Senate amendments to the #mapoli #2024budget. Because of Eurovision I wasn't paying as much attention as I should to where the process was after the House passed its budget bill. Transportation amendments are numbered 826 to 854; thread below. https://malegislature.gov/Budget/FY2024/SenateDebate

And a final update on the #mapoli House #2024budget: quoting from the web site: "Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 25)". So now it's on to the Senate (or will be after some formalities in the clerks' offices).

Consolidated amendment E as adopted tonight clarifies that the $70m is for RTAs rather than just "transit improvements". #mapoli #2024budget

#mapoli #2024budget Update: this evening the House voted to approve amendment 788 after all of its contents were deleted by the "leadership", so it goes on the records as "consolidated in amendment E and adopted" even though consolidated amendment E does not include a single word of the text. Many but not all of the transportation earmarks were actually included in the consolidated amendment.

Going to post a summary of transportation-related amendments to the #MApoli #2024budget shortly, but one non-transpo item I thought worth noting: amendment 1237 (Ryan of Boston) would provide $5 million for an industrial-scale water-water heat pump to replace the #Kendall #cogeneration plant on Mem Drive with a steam-only facility. (The actual cost would likely be much more but presumably borne by current district heating customers.)