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The ruling and opposition parties work together to pass a budget; Abe Akie at Mar-a-Lago?

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Government by negotiation delivers a budget

CDP leader Noda Yoshihiko speaks with his shadow cabinet about the “groundbreaking” passage of a revised supplemental budget. Source: CDP

After some hints that the process of moving the supplemental budget through the House of Representatives would prove contentious and could even necessitate extending the extraordinary session of the Diet past 21 December, the Ishiba government’s FY2024 supplemental budget passed the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP)-controlled budget committee and the whole house on Thursday, 12 December. The budget passed not only with the support of the Democratic Party for the People (DPFP), but also the CDP and Ishin no Kai.