Teachers and education workers staged a protest on Thursday, January 15, calling on the Marcos administration to release the full 2025 Service Recognition Incentive (SRI), implement meaningful salary increases, and submit a supplemental budget to ensure regularization and benefits for public school...
Senator Joel Villanueva believes that the government should boost the country’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to address the lingering unemployment and underemployment problem. Villanueva, reacting to the latest job data, said the General Appropriations Act of 2026 should focus on...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Wednesday, January 14 rejected Sen. Imee Marcos ' insinuations that he is gay, and also said that there is nothing in his body that is fake. Lacson is referring to Marcos’ statement against him after he denied her allegations that...
Senator Paolo “Bam” Aquino IV on Tuesday, January 13, urged the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to ensure the full and proper use of the P1.34-trillion education fund under the 2026 national budget. Aquino, chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic...
A word war has erupted between Senator Imee Marcos and Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo "Ping" Lacson over the 2026 national budget and the handling of the flood control investigation by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. In a previous interview, Marcos stated she has given up on the flood...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday, January 11 denounced Sen. Imee Marcos’s allegations of “soft pork barrel” in the 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA), disclosing that the President’s sister in fact, has an allocable fund worth at least P2.5-billion in the...
Senator Erwin Tulfo urged Congress on Sunday, January 11 to conduct a random inspection of all government projects that are funded under the 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA). Tulfo pushed for a random on-ground inspection as he expressed support to the creation of a Joint Congressional...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta has raised concerns over the veto on several unprogrammed appropriation items in the General Appropriations Act (GAA), saying many of the items should not have been removed, particularly those originally proposed by the executive itself in the National Expenditure Program...
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III rejected on Friday, January 9 allegations that there’s soft pork barrel in the 2026 national budget saying such statements are “unfair and baseless.” Sotto aired his sentiment when asked about Sen. Imee Marcos’ insistence that there is an...
A teachers’ group on Thursday, January 8, warned that President Marcos’ veto of portions of the 2026 national budget may trigger a "massive exodus" of faculty members and staff in state universities and colleges (SUCs), citing worsening job insecurity and mounting workloads. In a statement, the...
Senator Erwin Tulfo on Thursday, Jan. 8, expressed support for the creation of a strong joint congressional oversight mechanism to closely monitor the implementation of programs and projects funded under the 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA), stressing the need to ensure that public funds are...
Senator Joel Villanueva expressed optimism over the implementation of the Doktor Para Sa Bayan law after the program was granted P1.095 billion in funding under the 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA). "We 're very grateful to President Bongbong Marcos for supporting our Doktor Para Sa...
