The Bicameral Conference Committee hearings on the P5.268-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) have wrapped up, with the leader of the House of Representatives contingent calling the measure "a very good budget". Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Screenshot from YouTube live) The approval...
The second and most likely final Bicameral Conference Committee meeting between the House of Representatives and the Senate on the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 will take place Monday, Dec. 5, the Manila Bulletin learned. (Unsplash) The site of the meeting will be the Manila...
Lawmakers decided to cut the proposed budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for 2023 due to its poor performance in the past two years, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said on Friday, December 2. Hontiveros pointed this out after Ako Bicol party-list Rep. Zaldy...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Thursday, December 1 renewed his call for better social protection and benefits for the country’s healthcare workers through a review and amendment of the Magna Carta of Public Health Workers. Go said he sees the necessity of amending Republic Act No. 7305,...
House Deputy Minority leader Rep. France Castro on Wednesday, November 30 said the P10-billion proposed budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) should not be restored and instead be realigned to the government’s financial assistance program for indigent...
Senator Sonny Angara on Monday, November 28 said the Senate will work for the continued grant of financial assistance or “ayuda” to support the sectors that really need it and are still feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Angara, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and who is...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has urged lawmakers to ensure that the P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 would “leave no Filipino behind” and ultimately benefit them and the entire country. Cayetano made the call a day after the Senate and House of Representatives kicked off the bicameral...
The House leadership is confident that the Senate will agree to the former's P77-billion institutional amendments to the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023, saying this would augment funds for education, health, transportation and other critical social services. House Speaker Martin...
Senators are in agreement that the country’s health workers deserve to receive a higher salary and be paid their benefits for their role in the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. But lawmakers cannot say if the government has sufficient funds to agree to their demands of a monthly minimum...
The bicameral conference committee on Friday, November started tackling the P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 of the Marcos administration, including the proposals for the realignment of confidential and intelligence funds (CIF), that are lodged under the Office of the Vice President (OVP)...
Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri on Thursday, Nov. 24 warned the Executive branch that it would chop off the controversial confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) in the 2024 national budget if there is mismanagement in the 2023 national budget. ‘’Let me reiterate my position when...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Thursday said he expressed his reservation on the P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 which the Senate unanimously approved on Wednesday night, November 23. Although he still voted for the approval of House Bill No. 4488, or the...
