Opposition leader Yair Lapid is pillorying a proposal that would give lawmakers until mid-December to pass a budget, calling it “crooked and harmful.”
Yair Lapid (left) and Benny Gantz speak to supporters in Tel Aviv, on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
“As always, they have decided not to decide. Instead of passing a budget in record time, this government has chosen, again, to play small-minded and worthless political games on the backs of the people.”
“Anyone who supports delaying the budget is basically saying to the Israeli people: I don’t care about you anymore,” he says at the start of a Yesh Atid-Telem faction meeting.
The government currently has until August 25 to pass a budget or be automatically disbanded. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he would back a proposal to delay the deadline by 100 days, staving off elections, amid an ongoing dispute over whether to pass a single-year budget or one that extends to the end of 2021.
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