At the Finance Committee, it’s all about shaving the fat these days. Spending increases of 1 million here, 57 million there, 6 billion there, or sometimes even just… 1 euro are being adopted. After the revenue side of the 2025 budget – which the deputies completely overhauled before rejecting it – they have been working for the past week on the expenditure side of the Finance Bill (PLF), which is likely to suffer the same fate. Unlike the taxation part of the budgetit is quite possible that the part dealing with the resources allocated to the various government missions will not even reach the Hemicycle in the next few days. Indeed, if the first part is rejected by the deputies in session, the whole text will go straight to the Senate in its initial version – the one presented by the government on October 10. As a result, a rather absurd atmosphere reigns in the committee. Some are demotivated, others are taking advantage of the opportunity to