President Marcos is expected to sign four of his priority bills, including the 2025 national budget, before the year ends, the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) said on Monday, Dec. 9. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. signs three legislative measures into law: ‘Amendments to...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental provincial board unanimously approved the province’s proposed P6.4-billion budget for next year during its regular session on Tuesday, Dec. 3. The expenditure is 18.8 percent higher by P1.022 billion than last year’s P5.4 billion. LACSON (FB) Gov. Eugenio...
Only a few major differences will be tacked by the bicameral conference committee on disagreeing provisions of the 2025 budget according to Senate Finance Committee Chair Senator Grace Poe. Sen. Grace L. Poe delivers her opening remarks as the head of Senate panel and chairperson of the Committee...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, December 1, reiterated his push for a P300-million additional allocation for the procurement of textbooks and other learning materials in the proposed 2025 national budget. The P300-million was added to the P12.4-billion originally allocated for...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The Commission on Elections Second Division recently granted a petition declaring Adam Yap as a nuisance candidate due to his lack of genuine intent to actively engage in the election process as Benguet congressional candidate. ADAM Yap Rep. Eric Go Yap, who filed the...
BAGUIO CITY – Former Marine officer Ariel Querubin urged President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte to settle their differences and concentrate in performing their jobs. QUERUBIN (Zaldy Comanda) "They should try to settle the difference. There are more important...
Vice President Sara Duterte’s allies in the Senate have accepted the inevitability they won’t be able to press for a higher budget for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) for 2025 given the current circumstances. Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said the OVP’s budget for next year...
Voting 18-0-1, the Senate approved on third and final reading on Tuesday, Nov. 26, House Bill 10800 or the P6.352 trillion 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB). In plenary, Senator Grace Poe enumerated during the period of committee amendments how the Senate maximized the budget to secure the...
Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman (PPAB) Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman has asserted that the proposed postponement of the first parliamentary elections of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) from 2025 to 2026 is a...
Senator Imee Marcos has formally asked Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero to fine-tune the procedures in the upcoming bicameral conference committee (bicam) meeting on the 2025 national budget. In her letter to Escudero, which she coursed through Sen. Grace Poe, chairperson of the...
A Muslim lawyer and head of a political party in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has urged the government to hold the region's first-ever parliamentary elections next year as scheduled in accordance with the law. Meanwhile, political observers claimed that extending the historic...
Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo (PPAB) CALBAYOG CITY, Samar—Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo says the House of Representatives' contingent to the Bicameral Conference Committee for the proposed 2025 national budget...
