Iraq Puts Its Budget to a Vote
Iraq's cabinet is reported to vote Saturday on its first full budget since 2023, as Washington warns Baghdad over weapons and Tehran says not yet.
Wednesday, November 4. Iraq's cabinet is reported to be meeting in an extraordinary session on Saturday with one item on the table: the 2027 budget. A government source gave the date. A source inside the governing alliance says it could slip to early next week.
Either way, it is the bill this channel has been waiting on since drafting began in September, and the first full budget Iraq has put to a vote since 2023. Of the steps we have tracked all year before the rate, it is the one still waiting on a vote.
In early September the government promised a vote within the month and a deficit no bigger than 3%. The bill arrives 2 months late. Its deficit is near a fifth of everything it spends.
Today: the session, the promise and the bill, the two conditions, Washington's warning, Baghdad's close, Tehran's answer, Washington's week, and America's count.
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