自・立、予算案の３１日参院採決で合意　年度内成立の公算、世耕氏招致も

　自民、立憲民主両党の参院幹部は２８日、国会内で会談し、参院で審議中の２０２５年度予算案について協議した。高額療養費制度見直しの凍結を反映した再修正案を、３１日の予算委員会と本会議で採決する日程で大筋合意。政府・与党は同日中に衆院へ回付し、本会議で同意を得たい考えで、予算案は年度内に成立する公算が大きくなった。
　立民側は採決の条件として、自民派閥の裏金事件に関係した旧安倍派元幹部４人の参考人招致を求めていた。自民側はこのうち、離党した世耕弘成衆院議員の招致に応じる考えを伝達。この後の参院予算委で議決した。（2025/03/28-13:05）

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday broadly agreed with the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan to put a revised government budget bill for fiscal 2025 to votes at the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, the upper parliamentary chamber, and at a plenary session of the Upper House, both on Monday.
   The revised bill reflects Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's decision to freeze a planned increase in the ceiling on out-of-pocket spending for high-cost medical care.
   The government and the ruling parties hope to send the bill to the House of Representatives on the same day and obtain its approval at a plenary session of the lower chamber, making it highly likely that the budget will be enacted within fiscal 2024, which ends on Monday.
   As a condition for agreeing to put the bill to the votes, the CDP had demanded that four former senior members of a now-defunct LDP faction once led by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe be summoned as witnesses over a slush funds scandal involving the faction. The LDP side accepted the summoning of one of the four--Lower House lawmaker Hiroshige Seko, who has left the LDP.