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Analysis: Vowing budget control, Brazil faces pressure to keep spending Reuters 1/22/2021 By Jamie McGeever © Reuters/ADRIANO MACHADO FILE PHOTO: Federal Deputies Pacheco and Andrada seen during Commission of Constitution and Justice meeting in Brasilia By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil s government entered 2021 determined to slash last year s record budget deficit, but a devastating second wave of COVID-19 and fragile economic growth are piling the political pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to keep spending. Lawmakers seeking to become the next leaders of both houses of Congress have told Reuters they understand the importance of restoring the public finances back to health, but are looking for ways to protect growth and Brazil s poor from the pandemic.

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