Overview
- The government paid R$31.538 billion in 2025, the highest nominal total on record and equal to 67% of that year’s committed amendments.
- Nearly the entire 2025 earmark envelope was committed, with R$47 billion obligated out of R$48.5 billion authorized, leaving unpaid commitments to be settled later.
- Payments totaled R$19.9 billion for individual amendments, R$6.3 billion for state-bench amendments, and R$5.3 billion for commission amendments, with 83.1% going to impositive categories.
- Disbursements accelerated at year-end, including R$1.53 billion in the Christmas week, a pace attributed to a political agreement that Chamber Speaker Hugo Motta said was pushed by minister Gleisi Hoffmann.
- Across Lula’s first three years, R$127 billion in amendments were committed versus R$83.7 billion authorized in Bolsonaro’s first three, and the 2026 budget projects R$61 billion for new earmarks.