Ignore this story. Focus instead on the simultaneous $1.776B 'Truth and Justice Commission' compensation fund for political allies, which represents actual corruption and institutional captureβthat's the real spending scandal this week.
This represents normal legislative process functioning correctlyβthe parliamentarian enforcing budget reconciliation rules against an administration spending request. The separation-of-powers score reflects the system working as designed (checks functioning), not erosion. The proposal itself raises minor corruption questions (luxury spending on executive residence), but the event is the *blocking* of that spending, which is constitutionally healthy. This is noise: a vanity spending proposal appropriately rejected through normal channels.