💰 Strange budget bedfellows

The Finance Ministry has enlisted an unlikely ally in its budget feud with Congress: the Supreme Court.

Facing a slate of bills the economic team says would cost BRL 111 billion a year, the ministry is backing a proposed binding ruling that would declare unconstitutional any measure that creates or expands spending without a named funding source — binding courts and public administration across the federal government, states and municipalities, and handing the executive grounds to veto or challenge bills that ignore it…

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