Brazil's Supreme Court declared budget-amendment outsourcing illegal and demanded full traceability, even as the TCU weighed loosening the public-salary cap.

Brazil's lower house approved billions in extraordinary credits that sit outside the annual budget and the fiscal framework, testing its own spending rules.

Brazil's Supreme Court declared budget-amendment outsourcing illegal and demanded full traceability, even as the TCU weighed loosening the public-salary cap.

Justice Flavio Dino of Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the immediate suspension of extra-salary 'penduricalhos' across all branches and levels of government,