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title: "Mexico's Sheinbaum vows to raise minimum wage, build infrastructure, without tax hikes"
description: "Mexico City, June 26 (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that she has no plans to increase taxes for the general population but that her administration would continue to invest in major infrastructure projects and increase the minimum wage."
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# Mexico's Sheinbaum vows to raise minimum wage, build infrastructure, without tax hikes

> Mexico City, June 26 (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that she has no plans to increase taxes for the general population but that her administration would continue to invest in major infrastructure projects and increase the minimum wage.

By Reuters · Published 26 June 2024, 23:45 SAST · Updated 26 June 2024, 23:49 SAST

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Sheinbaum, who will take office in October after winning a landslide election victory earlier this month, also guaranteed to maintain social welfare programs expanded under her predecessor and mentor President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

The peso extended losses on Sheinbaum's comments, trading down 1.3% against the dollar.

Mexico's incoming president said she thought the planned review in 2026 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will be "minor."

(Reporting by Raul Cortes Fernandez and Anthony Esposito, Writing by Stephen Eisenhammer)