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Marcos admin proposes ₱11 billion in confidential, intel funds for 2026, down 11%

Published Aug 13, 2025 04:06 pm

At A Glance

  • While the proposed 2026 national budget increased by more than seven percent, confidential and intelligence funds will be slashed by 11.2 percent, or ₱1.35 billion, from the existing national budget.
While the proposed 2026 national budget increased by more than seven percent, confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) were slashed by 11.2 percent, or ₱1.35 billion, from the existing national budget.
Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman reported during the ceremonial turnover of the fiscal year 2026 National Expenditure Program (NEP) that the total CIF allocation for next year will be ₱10.8 billion, of which ₱4.4 billion is confidential funds and ₱6.4 billion is intelligence funds.
Pangandaman noted that the largest allocation will go to the Office of the President (OP) with ₱4.5 billion, followed by the Department of National Defense (DND) with ₱1.85 billion, and other executive offices.
She stressed that while next year’s national budget is 7.4 percent higher than this year’s ₱6.33 trillion national budget, “the economic team carefully considered the available fiscal space and worked diligently to tighten the budget.”
Pangandaman said that agency submissions for next year’s proposed national budget were “carefully evaluated, given our limited fiscal space.”
The evaluation focused on whether proposals aligned with the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2023–2028, were shovel-ready with complete feasibility studies and procurement plans, fit within agencies’ absorptive capacity, and considered fiscal space by adopting efficiency measures and cutting non-essential expenses.
Based on the NEP, the largest allocation will go to social services—which cover education, health, and social protection—at ₱2.31 trillion or 34.1 percent of the total budget.
“While we have always met the constitutional mandate to assign the highest budgetary priority to education, I am proud to announce today that for the first time, the budget for basic and higher education has been increased monumentally to meet UNESCO’s [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] recommended education spending target of at least four percent of the country’s GDP [gross domestic product],” Pangandaman said.
It will be followed by economic services with ₱1.87 trillion (27.5 percent); general public services with P1.20 trillion (17.7 percent); debt burden with P978.7 billion (14.4 percent); and defense with P430.9 billion (6.3 percent).
For 2026, the Department of Education (DepEd) will get the biggest share of the budget at ₱928.5 billion, followed by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) with ₱881.3 billion.
The Department of Health (DOH), including PhilHealth, will receive ₱320.5 billion, while the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will get ₱287.5 billion.
The DND is allocated ₱299.3 billion, the Department of Agriculture (DA) and its attached agencies ₱239.2 billion, and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), including the National Commission of Senior Citizens, ₱227 billion.
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) will receive ₱198.6 billion, the Judiciary ₱67.9 billion, and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), including the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), ₱55.2 billion.

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