🇨🇱 Chile – Tuesday, 29 September 2026
**2027 budget hits Congress without a Kast majority**
Kast's government must submit its 2027 budget bill to Congress by the September 30 constitutional deadline, merging 25 social programmes including Patagonia scholarships and indigenous development funds; lacking a majority, his finance ministry needs opposition votes for the roughly $6 billion, 18-month fiscal adjustment it is chasing.
Previously:
The Rio Times
Chile Merges 25 Social Programmes Into Nine After Kast Vowed No Cuts
Chile's government has discontinued 25 social programmes and folded them into nine. President Kast had promised in the campaign to cut no soci...