Lula Pushes to Exempt Brazil Flood Relief From Spending Rules
- Brazil leader pledges to ‘everything in our power’ amid floods
- Crisis leaves 83 dead and sparks food shortage concerns
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva proposed exempting emergency spending from Brazil’s fiscal rules as his government raced to respond to devastating floods in the southern part of the country.
“We are going to do everything in our power so that we can contribute to the recovery of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, improving people’s lives and facilitating what we can facilitate,” Lula said Monday afternoon in Brasilia, where he unveiled the plan in the form of a presidential decree that still needs approval from Congress.