• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s an internal message. The German government just had 60 billion of their planned budget yanked away by a Supreme Court ruling. (They had planned to reroute unused money set aside for covid measures to the general budget. The court denied this, because our constitutional debt ceiling can only be ignored in an emergency, not for general spending)

    Now every department is facing harsh budget cuts and every minister tries to argue why the cuts shouldn’t hit their department.
    Pistorius is saying “if you cut my budget, you might as well start learning to speak Russian”.