Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (Screenshot from YouTube live) The national government's total expenditure on debt for next year will reach P1.939 trillion, or a whopping 33 percent of the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP). ...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Facebook) House Speaker Martin Romualdez reiterated on Thursday, Aug. 10 his promise of an expeditious passage of the 2024 national budget. This, after the House of Representatives--through the Committee on...
A sample copy of a PhiID card (MB File Photo) Senator Francis Escudero on Wednesday, August 9 said he will ask the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for “quantifiable targets” when they come to the Senate for the 2024 national budget...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The House Committee on Appropriations will formally begin to tackle the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) on Thursday, Aug. 10 when it hosts the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) for a briefing on the 2024 spending...
BEYOND BUDGET Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. Today, Aug. 9, 2023, we join our indigenous brothers and sisters in marking two significant occasions: the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples and the National Indigenous Peoples Day. With the theme, “Indigenous youth...
(Unsplash) A budget of P2.5 billion has been earmarked for the national government's free Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) program for the year 2024. This was learned following the Department of Budget and Management's (DBM) submission of the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure...
(Unsplash) Here's a not-so-fun fact: the Philippine government will have to "borrow" around P4 billion a day based on its 2024 National Expenditure Program (NEP) or proposed national budget. House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto explains...
(MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto hailed on Saturday, Aug. 5 the "unprecedented" P5-billion increase in the budget for the government’s child feeding program for the year 2024. In a statement, Recto noted...
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III (MANILA BULLETIN) Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has vowed to scrutinize the proposed 2024 P5.768-trillion national budget. This came as the Senate chief fiscalizer questioned the priorities set by...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. recognized that the government must do more in the next five years to sustain its initial gains to attain effective and transformative development initiatives. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Ali Vicoy) Marcos said this in his 2024...
Senators are keen on scrutinizing all requests for confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) under the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, said he will check how and where the proposed CIFs of all...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Cash assistance or "ayuda" programs of the national government will continue to get funded under the 2024 National Expenditure Program (NEP) or proposed national budget. This, despite President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s lifting of the country’s state of public emergency...
