２４年度予算、２８日成立へ　自・立、採決で大筋合意

　自民党の石井準一、立憲民主党の斎藤嘉隆両参院国対委員長は２７日、国会内で会談し、２０２４年度予算案を２８日の参院予算委員会と本会議で採決することで大筋合意した。与党の賛成多数で可決、成立する見通し。
　予算案の一般会計総額は過去２番目の１１２兆５７１７億円で、１月に起きた能登半島地震の復旧・復興費用などが盛り込まれている。２日に衆院を通過し、憲法の規定で今年度中の自然成立は確定していた。（2024/03/27-12:07）

Japan's parliament is expected to enact the fiscal 2024 state budget Thursday, following an agreement made Wednesday between ruling and opposition party lawmakers.
   The agreement to put the draft budget to a vote at Budget Committee and plenary meetings at the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, on Thursday was struck between Junichi Ishii, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Diet affairs leader in the chamber, and his counterpart from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yoshitaka Saito.
   The budget is expected to be enacted with support from the ruling coalition, which holds a comfortable majority in the chamber.
   The budget envisions general-account spending of 112,571.7 billion yen, the second largest ever, including costs to support reconstruction after the powerful earthquake that hit the Noto Peninsula in central Japan on Jan. 1.
   The House of Representatives, the lower chamber, passed the budget March 2. The budget will be enacted before the end of fiscal 2023 on Sunday even without an Upper House vote, given the Lower House's superiority stipulated in the Constitution.