Senator Sherwin Gatchalian rejected on Tuesday, January 6 insinuations that the 2026 national budget was crafted to include efforts to pursue the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte. This, after Sen. Imee Marcos, in a video posted on her Facebook page, floated the possibility that the...
Senator Imee Marcos stated on Tuesday, January 6, that despite efforts to make the bicameral conference committee (bicam) open to public scrutiny, some agreements were reached while deliberations were suspended. In a television interview on ANC, Marcos, who 's a member of the minority bloc,...
Senator Imee Marcos said on Tuesday, Jan. 26, that calling the 2026 national budget the cleanest is prone to challenge and that, in her view, it is “certainly the sneakiest.” In a television interview on ANC, Marcos explained why she refused to sign the budget measure, describing it as a...
Senators on Sunday, January 4 expressed alarm over the United States’ operation on Venezuela that led to the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Sen. Imee Marcos, the president’s sister, said the situation in Venezuela underscores long-standing concerns regarding the...
Senator Imee Marcos on Wednesday, December 31 said she refused to sign the bicameral conference committee approved version of the 2026 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), saying it did not eliminate the so-called pork barrel system despite efforts to promote transparency and accountability. ...
Senator Imee Marcos on Saturday, Dec. 13 flagged the sharp increase in the Department of Education’s (DepEd) classroom construction budget, despite the agency’s rather lackluster 23 percent absorption rate. During Bicameral Conference Committee deliberations on the proposed 2026 national...
Senator Imee Marcos raised concerns over the supposed absence of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) budget during the first day of the Bicameral Conference Committee hearings on the proposed 2026 national budget on Saturday, Dec. 13. During the proceedings, Marcos appeared puzzled...
Vice President Sara Duterte told President Marcos to stop gaslighting his sister, Senator Imee Marcos, after the former claimed that it was unlike his sibling to alleged that he was a drug addict. In a media interview in Davao City on Tuesday, Nov. 25, the official said she was aware that the...
President Marcos has broken his silence on the drug allegations of his own sister against him and his family, saying the person who had them wrapped in a controversy "is not my sister." In an emotional response to queries about his sister, Senator Imee Marcos, during a press conference on Monday,...
Malacañang has reiterated that President Marcos will not undergo hair follicle drug test, saying he will not give in to any provocation from his critics. Responding to the dare of Senator Imee Marcos that she would agree to undergo a DNA test if the President agrees to do a hair follicle test,...
Malacañang said there is currently no plan to pursue any legal actions against Senator Imee Marcos after her drug allegations against President Marcos and the First Family. "Let’s just wait and see. As of now, we do not have any plans of making and legal action against her. So, let’s just...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday, Nov. 18, distanced the military from allegations raised by Sen. Imee Marcos that her brother, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is using drugs. Acting AFP spokesperson Rear Adm. Roy Vincent Trinidad said the claim of the lady lawmaker is a...
