If there is something that characterizes Donald Trump’s policy, it is relentless pressure, blackmail for many, when something obsesses him. The president demanded this Friday that the Federal Reserve (Fed) drastically cut interest rates at the next meeting (September 15-16) or, otherwise, he will cut trade with countries with which the United States has trade deficits.

Seventeen years later, the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council has approved a proposal for new regional financing that, if it passes the procedure in the Congress of Deputies, would inject 21 billion more per year to the common regime communities. The Ministry of Finance calls it a historic day. However, the Government’s approach has been flatly rejected by all PP executives, as well as by two socialists, Castilla-La Mancha and Asturias.

The Fiscal and Financial Policy Council approved this Friday the proposal to reform the regional financing model that would provide 21 billion more in resources to fund public services in the common regime communities. In the final vote, the Ministry of Finance received support from the councillors of Catalonia and the Canary Islands. It should be remembered that the framework of the reform is based on the investiture pact of the PSC with ERC to invest Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat. All the PP communities voted against it, precisely using that argument, that it is a measure previously agreed with an independentist party and, therefore, lacks consensus. Castilla-La Mancha and Asturias, governed by the PSOE, also voted against it. 87% of the autonomous communities oppose the Government’s proposal.