Netanyahu: Budget passed in December will be for 2020 only, Gantz agreed to this

Prime Minister Netanyahu is now saying the budget passed in the last week of December will be for 2020 alone — not 2021.

He claims Blue and White, which has demanded a budget for 2021 as soon as possible, had agreed to this when a budget deadline delay bill was passed in August.

“We agreed and passed a bill that the 2020 budget will be passed in December and at the same time the 2021 budget will be prepared,” he says. “This is the bill they approved and unfortunately Blue and White are denying it.”

This is incorrect. The budget delay bill did not rule on which budget would be passed when. It merely put off the deadline to make that decision to late December, as failing to do so by August 25 would have led to the government’s automatic collapse.