The day opened with the aftermath of the Ohio tractor crash, as Dutch media mourned the death of Ruben Fortuin, a well-known speaker in the tractor-pulling community. Concurrently, the police union called for equal treatment of farmers and Extinction Rebellion in highway blockades. By afternoon, infrastructure failures took center stage: Rijkswaterstaat knew about the weakened Merwedebrug in 2020, and the opposition questioned the withheld higher cost estimate for the Oostbrug. In the evening, the Netherlands condemned Israel's West Bank building plans, and political negotiations shifted as the BBB joined budget talks, making a right-leaning coalition more likely.