<h1>Defence budget increase integrated into the finance bill, shaping fiscal priorities and parliamentary scrutiny of expenditures.</h1> The government presented the federal budget as a finance bill in the National Assembly and increased the defence budget allocation, embedding defence expenditure within the statutory budgetary approval process despite limited parliamentary discussion of defence items. The package prioritises debt servicing as the largest expenditure and sets operative macro fiscal targets for GDP growth, inflation, fiscal deficit and tax collection, which will frame parliamentary scrutiny, appropriation votes and budget implementation.