The budget for 2025 will be presented at the end of the afternoon by Michel Barnier in the Council of Ministers.

Guest of France Inter, the new president of the Assembly’s economic affairs committee, Aurélie Trouvé (La France insoumise), estimated that the 40 billion euro reduction in spending planned in the 2025 draft budget will have an impact “recessive effect” about the economy: “It will reduce demand, employment and, ultimately, public income”, she said.

“The solution proposed by Michel Barnier [pour assainir les comptes publics marqués par le déficit et la dette] “It’s a disaster.” criticized am^me Found, who spoke of a “collapse of public spending” who goes “touching people’s daily lives.” According to him, any reduction in social spending could, in particular, increase the prices of mutual insurance companies.

According to her, “The problem is not public spending, it is that there has been less and less income” in recent years. “We have to get the money where it is, from the richest, the ultra-rich and the multinationals”argument.

Michel Barnier proposed the idea of ​​asking a particular contribution from the richest people and companies, but the LFI deputy stressed that this tax would only serve, in the opinion of the executive, “transitional, for one or two years.”

As for his own election, yesterday, at the head of the Assembly’s Economic Affairs Committee, made possible by a disagreement between the Macronists and the right, M.^me Trouvé said he saw this as proof that there is, between the presidential camp and the Republicans, no “common base”, but only one “alliance of circumstances so that the New Popular Front [arrivé en tête des législatives] “I can’t govern.”

As to why, for its part, the coalition of left-wing parties could not agree to appoint Jérôme Guedj as president of the social affairs commission, Aurélie Trouvé recalled that Guedj, although a socialist, had not been sworn in by the NFP. in legislative elections. “I regret this situation”said.