Bundestag: A household for three months: Bundesstat for 2025 stands

The federal budget for the current year is ready for the final coordination in parliament. While the black and red coalition has long been concerned about enormous funding gaps in later households, the budget committee made last changes to the budget for 2025 in the late evening.

Expenditures of around 502.5 billion euros are now planned – that is 460 million fewer than the federal government had planned. There were no more changes in the new debt: In the core budget, new loans of almost 82 billion euros are available. In addition, however, there are billions in loans from special pots for the Bundeswehr and the infrastructure, so that in the end debts of more than 140 billion should be available.

Union’s housekeeper Christian Haase spoke of a household that creates the basics of security and growth. The Greens’ chief housekeeper, Sebastian Schäfer, criticized the fact that billions from the special fund were used for the infrastructure to stuff household holes and finance clientele gifts. The left-wing housekeeper Dietmar Bartsch described the first budget of Chancellor Friedrich Merz and finance minister Lars Klingbeil as the “Financial Hussar Piece”. “A work on uncovered checks, no future budget!” He said, warning of painful cuts in social.

The Bundestag is to finally decide on the 2025 budget at the week of session from September 16 to 19 September. However, the so -called cleaning meeting of the mighty budget committee is already a decisive stage on the way to adopting in parliament. The housekeepers go through all the individual budgets and have the ministers audition.

The peculiarity of the 2025 budget

The decisive committee meeting often runs deep into the night – however, not this time. Housekeepers speak of the shortest adjustment session that you can remember. However, the budget for 2025 is also a special one: Because of the early Bundestag election and the formation of the government, it is decided significantly later than usual and basically only applies to a little more than three months. Large changes were therefore hardly planned.

In addition, the housekeepers have long since been working on the Federal Budget 2026, which will be introduced to the Bundestag immediately after the 2025 budget was resolved. He should also be decided before the end of the year – so that the coming year does not have to start again with preliminary housekeeping.

For SPD boss Lars Klingbeil it was the first budget negotiations as finance minister. And even if he had to ward off multi -claims with billions, it was still comparatively simple conversations. Neither in the household for 2025, nor in the 2026 there are oversized funding gaps.

The federal government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz is worried about the budgets for 2027 and the following years. In the budget plans for 2027 alone, there is a gap of 30 billion euros – despite all the credit spaces in defense policy and the recently decided softening of the debt brake for infrastructure expenditure. According to Klingbeil, such a large hole did not have to close a coalition.

Debate about tax increases and social reform

The black and red federal government has been struggling for weeks where expenses saved and possibly even funding claims and services have to be deleted. During the summer holidays, debates broke out about any tax increases and social reforms. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said: “The welfare state, as we have it today, can no longer be financed with what we do economically.” SPD leader Bärbel Bas countered at a Juso event that was “bullshit”.

On Wednesday, the party leader Merz and Klingbeil emphasized that one was clear about the dimension of the task. “We will have to convey to the population why, despite the high investments in defense and infrastructure, we have a considerable need for consolidation in public households. This will be a difficult task to present it,” said Merz.