President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. hopes that Congress will approve the proposed 2024 National Budget, saying their approval would bring the Philippines one step closer to achieving the Government's transformative vision for the country. *File photos (Malacañang, DBM)* Marcos said this in...
From left to right: House Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan, DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman, House Speaker Martin Romualdez, and Committee on Appropriations Chairman Zaldy Co. (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez thanked the Department of Budget and Management...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives will officially receive on Wednesday morning, Aug. 2 the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) for 2024, or the precursor to next year's national budget. Information reaching House reporters Tuesday morning, Aug. 1, bared that Department...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said that the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024 would ensure the country's growth and that a large part would be allocated to economic and social services programs. *Malacañang photo* Marcos said this as he received a copy of the Fiscal...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) This early, House Speaker Martin Romualdez has guaranteed the swift approval of another proposed national budget, this time for the year 2024. According to the House of Representatives chieftain, five weeks of "solid work" should be...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives won't lose sight of swiftly approving the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) for 2024 or the national budget even as it tackles the four remaining priority bills of the Marcos administration that it has yet to pass. “With our firm...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Tuesday, June 20, said that he had instructed the Department of Agriculture (DA), which he heads in a concurrent capacity, to boost the local production of agricultural products in a bid for lower prices of goods. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. speaks...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara In just seven weeks after his administration was formally inaugurated in late June of this year, President Bongbong Marcos transmitted to Congress his government’s proposed budget for 2023, otherwise known as the National Expenditure Program (NEP). The NEP details...
Marikina City 2nd district congresswoman and appropriations panel senior vice chairperson Stella Quimbo doesn't sound worried at all about the country's debt servicing chores. Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) This, even as the Philippines has...
Cagayan de Oro City 2nd District Rep. Rufus Rodriguez wants to restore the budget cuts made to the University of the Philippines (UP) System and the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). Cagayan de Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (Facebook) Under the proposed 2023 National Expenditure Program...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. was true to his word. Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) That's how Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga described the significant budgetary increase that the executive branch has asked for the...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez says the lower chamber aims to pass the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 on third and final reading by the end of next month. From left to right: DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman. Speaker Martin Romualdez. Majority Leader Mannix Dalipe, and...
