On Monday 23 November 2015, President Danilo Medina submitted a series of proposed amendments to the 2015 National Budget in a letter to the Senate president Cristina Lizardo.
The proposal is to increase the budget from RD$529.32 billion to RD$533.31 billion, an increase of almost RD$4 billion.
In his note to Senate president Cristina Lizardo, President Medina writes that the increase is being requested in order to cover additional costs that were unknown when the budget was first prepared. He went on to say that certain amounts had changed in different government departments and that he also wanted to increase the amount of the loans taken out with multinational organizations.
El Presidente somete al Congreso proyecto de modificación del presupuesto actual