{"id":45868,"date":"2026-07-04T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T10:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=45868"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:27:05","slug":"budget-cabinet-approves-ssp-11-3-trillion-for-2026-2027-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/budget-cabinet-approves-ssp-11-3-trillion-for-2026-2027-fiscal-year\/","title":{"rendered":"BUDGET: Cabinet approves SSP 11.3 trillion for 2026\/2027 fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Yiep Joseph<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Council of Ministers has approved 11.3 trillion South Sudanese pounds (SSP) for the 2026\/2027 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Ministers made the approval on Friday during a meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir Mayardit.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement obtained from the presidential press unit, the decision marks an important early step in the national budget process.<\/p>\n<p>The framework was presented to cabinet by the Minister of Finance and Planning, Daniel Ayulo Kuol, who outlined projected revenues alongside proposed expenditure limits across key government sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Following the presentation, ministers held extensive deliberations on the country\u2019s fiscal outlook and spending priorities before unanimously endorsing the proposed framework.<\/p>\n<p>The approved resource envelope is designed to align government spending with expected revenues while ensuring fiscal discipline and continuity in public financial management.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Ministers further resolved to submit the framework to the Transitional National Legislative Assembly for consideration and approval, in accordance with established budgetary procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Once reviewed and adopted by lawmakers, the framework will serve as the basis for preparing the detailed national budget for the 2026\/2027 fiscal year, including allocations for both recurrent and development expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials in recent years have emphasised the importance of early budget approvals to improve predictability in public spending and strengthen economic planning amid ongoing fiscal constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yiep Joseph The Council of Ministers has approved 11.3 trillion South Sudanese pounds (SSP) for the 2026\/2027 fiscal year. The Council of Ministers made the approval on Friday during a meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir Mayardit. According to the statement obtained from the presidential press unit, the decision<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/budget-cabinet-approves-ssp-11-3-trillion-for-2026-2027-fiscal-year\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Council-meeting-photo-by-PPU.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45872,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions\/45872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}