Kim Kataguiri: The only person who said that was, Your Excellency, the Minister of Finance.
Kim Kataguiri: And why do I say that?
For two years I've been warning about this issue of mandatory expenditures bulldozing the budget; we no longer have discretionary spending.
Kim Kataguiri: But the one who promoted this advance of mandatory expenditures was the Lula government, through the transition PEC.
Kim Kataguiri: Our spending is tied; increases in revenue force us to spend more because of earmarks to tax revenue and to net current revenue.