Budget: the big savings proposed by right-wing senators

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On Monday, July 7, the elected officials went to Matignon to detail their proposal to reduce spending "between 30 billion, the lower range, and 50 billion, the upper range," including 10.5 billion for Social Security.

Gérard Larcher, LR president of the Senate, in Paris, March 2, 2023. (Denis Allard/Libération)

byAnne-Sophie Lechevallier and Chez Pol

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Neither "counter-budget" nor "anti-budget" . It is a "contribution" resulting from the work of the senators of the right-wing and centrist majority that the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, the LR senator and Budget rapporteur, Jean-François Husson, his counterpart (Centrist Union) in the Social Affairs Committee, Elisabeth Doineau, and the LR president of this committee, Philippe Mouiller, went to Matignon on Monday afternoon, July 7, to detail. They proposed a reduction in expenditure "between 30 billion, the low end, and 50 billion, the high end, calculates Husson. Including 10.5 billion concerning Social Security." This must have pleased their interlocutors, the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, and the Minister of

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