As a consequence of the Federal Constitutional Court’s budget ruling, the traffic light coalition wants to suspend the debt brake again this year. Lindner announced a supplementary budget on Thursday. With a supplementary budget for this year, the government will “propose a resolution to the Bundestag to declare an exceptional emergency situation for the year 2023,” wrote Lindner in the online service X. This is the prerequisite for suspending the debt brake. The SPD and the Greens supported the decision.
Kubicki, on the other hand, called for a paradigm shift in budget policy. It is imperative to talk about reducing certain government spending. “The fact that we are paying well over 30 billion euros for development aid, for example, is difficult to convey given the seriousness of the budgetary problem,” said the Vice President of the Bundestag. However, for Kubicki, leaving the FDP from the traffic light coalition is out of the question. “The Free Democrats are not shirking their responsibility,” he said.
