Bomb agenda: Senate approves 2 projects to increase public spending and sends another to plenary

The Federal Senate approved this Wednesday (10) three proposals that increase public spending, advancing the so-called "bomb agenda".
Two of them now go to the Chamber of Deputies for analysis. The other still needs to go through the House plenary (see details below).

One of the projects creates a special line of rural credit for renegotiating producers' debts. The president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP), included the item on the plenary voting agenda even without government support.
The benefits will be for producers affected by extreme weather events or economic impacts resulting from international geopolitical conflicts. (understand how it will work)
As the proposal underwent changes in the Senate, the text will have to undergo new deliberation by deputies before being sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).
The project is treated as a bombshell due to the billion-dollar impact it will have on the government's accounts if it is approved by the National Congress.
According to the Ministry of Finance, if all eligible people join the refinancing, the financial cost for the national Treasury could reach R$140 billion over the next 10 years. This financial expense ends up increasing the country's public debt even further.
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Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), rapporteur of the project in the Senate, however, states that the impact will be smaller, R$ 120 billion over the next ten years. The senator explains that the text is limited to the sector's overdue debts, and not to the entire stock.
A bomb agenda is a term used in the National Congress to designate bills or proposals that create billion-dollar expenses or reduce revenue. These measures have a strong negative impact on public accounts.
The Minister of Finance, Dario Durigan, met with Alcolumbre on Tuesday (9) to try to avoid voting on projects that could have negative effects on the government's accounts, the renegotiation of producers' debt is one of these proposals.
Government does not support
On the afternoon of this Wednesday, the text's rapporteur, Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), and senator Tereza Cristina (PP-MS), former Minister of Agriculture in the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL), met with the Minister of Finance.
Both the senators and Alcolumbre reported that the government did not support the measure in the format of Calheiros' opinion. Even so, the president of the Senate decided to vote on the text.
"The minister informed that the text that will be reported has no agreement, the support of the government. I respect the minister's position, but I made an agreement with senators, with deputies. I will publicly inform that there is no agreement with the government, but I will deliberate the report today", said Alcolumbre.
This Wednesday, Alcolumbre also received parliamentarians from the ruralist bench and governor Eduardo Leite (PSD), from Rio Grande do Sul, which may have many producers beneficiaries, who suffered from the impact of the 2024 floods.
Behind the scenes, the decision of the Senate leadership to vote on the proposal had already been made, but due to the good relationship with Durigan, Alcolumbre asked the senators who led the negotiations, Renan Calheiros and Tereza Cristina, to go to the Ministry of Finance for a conversation.
According to interlocutors, parliamentarians were reluctant to go to the ministry's headquarters and the visit was just to warn that they would "run over" the government in the vote.
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The measure meets a historic demand from the agricultural sector and comes in a context of increasing frequency of climate disasters in the country. According to a study cited in the rapporteur's opinion, climate disasters caused R$732 billion in losses to Brazil between 2013 and 2024.
To be entitled to the credit line, the rural producer must prove, through a technical report, losses of at least 30% of the expected gross income in two or more harvests between the years 2019 and 2025.
The causes of losses can be climatic events - such as floods, droughts, hail, frost and windstorms - or even drops in the selling prices of agricultural products due to international conflicts.
However, producers must be in states or municipalities that have declared a state of public calamity or emergency, recognized by the Executive Branch, whether federal or state.
Debt renegotiation
The text provides for the use of resources from the Social Fund - a federal fund created from revenues from pre-salt oil - to finance the subsidy.
Interest rates vary depending on the size of the rural producer:
3.5% per year for Pronaf farmers (federal program to support family farming) and small producers;
5.5% per year for ruralists who adhere to the National Support Program for Medium Rural Producers (Pronamp) and other medium producers; and
7.5% per year for other rural producers.
Financing will be provided by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and will have a limit of:
R$ 10 million per beneficiary; and
R$ 50 million for associations and cooperatives.
⏳ The payment term is 10 years, with a 3-year grace period.
The line includes funding, investment, commercialization and industrialization operations, in addition to Rural Product Certificates (CPR) and debts with cereal producers, cooperatives and suppliers and inputs.
Sources of financing
According to the proposal, the government will be able to use resources from the Social Fund originated:
from current revenues from 2026 and 2027; and
the financial surplus calculated on December 31, 2025 and 2026.
In addition, resources from regional funds may also be used, such as the Constitutional Financing Fund of the North (FNO), the Northeast (FNE) and the Center-West (FCO) and the Coffee Economy Defense Fund (Funcafé) to implement the measures foreseen in the proposal.
Social Fund
The resources will come from the financial surplus from the Social Fund calculated at the end of 2025, from current revenues from 2026 and 2027 and from other sources supervised by the Ministry of Finance. The overall limit of the operation will be defined by the Executive Branch.
The project also suspends judicial and administrative charges for debts covered during the financing contracting period and guarantees the producer the right to request a review of the calculation of charges without suffering restrictions in credit records.
After approval, the Executive Branch will have up to 180 days after the contracting deadline to present to Congress a report with the values and operations actually contracted.
Others bomb agendas
The Senate approved this Wednesday (10) two other texts that put pressure on public accounts.
The Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) approved the proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC) that provides for full retirement and parity for health workers and those fighting endemic diseases. The matter is now being analyzed by the plenary.
The impact estimated by the Ministry of Social Security is R$99 billion, considering the Union, states, Federal District and Municipalities.

The Social Affairs Commission (CAS) approved an increase in the national minimum wage for doctors and dentists from R$3,636 to R$13,662, considering 20 hours per week.
The project was approved definitively, which means that the text will go directly to the Chamber of Deputies, without having to go through the Senate plenary.
Under the proposal, the value of the minimum wage will be adjusted annually for inflation, with a nighttime bonus of 50% on the daytime hours worked.

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