Budget Plan for 2025 under Scrutiny: Opposition Alleges Deception by Government Coalition

The leaders of the opposition parties have accused the federal government of concealing the true level of debt in the 2025 federal budget. The finalised budget, now in the House of Representatives, has a total volume of 502.5 billion euros, with a new debt in the core budget of 81.8 billion euros.

The Left's politician, Bartsch, criticises the federal government for incurring high debts to finance the largest armament in the history of the Federal Republic, while development and crisis aid is almost halved and social cuts are announced. Green's parliamentary leader, Schäfer, echoes these sentiments, accusing the government of criminally neglecting opportunities offered by the special fund and using it to plug holes instead of creating new investments.

The AfD's Michael Espendiller refers to the federal budget as "wild growth," and suggests reducing EU payments by 18 billion euros and stopping military aid to Ukraine. Espendiller's faction submitted around 1,000 amendment requests in the Household Committee, but they were all rejected.

The opposition parties (Left, AfD, and Green) have accused the black-red coalition of trickery and obfuscation in the 2025 federal budget. The Green's finance expert, Sebastian Schäfer, criticises that the budget does not provide the necessary impulses in the deep structural crisis. Dietmar Bartsch, the Left's finance expert, describes the federal budget as a "financial labyrinth."

Minor changes were made to the draft submitted by Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) during the final deliberations. The final deliberations on the 2025 federal budget ended in an approximately eleven-hour reconciliation meeting of the House of Representatives.

All three opposition parties have announced they will reject the budget in the Bundestag. The final debate on the 2025 Budget Act is scheduled to take place in the Bundestag starting the week of September 15, with a decision planned for September 19. However, as of the weekend of September 15, there are no search results explicitly identifying which parties rejected the budget law for 2025 in the German Bundestag.

Budget Plan for 2025 under Scrutiny: Opposition Alleges Deception by Government Coalition