Senate Committee on Finance Senator Sonny Angara on Wednesday, December 7 said he is optimistic that the proposed P5.268-trillion budget of the government for next year would revitalize the country’s economy after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is a budget for national recovery. It’s...
The Marcos administration’s first national expenditure program underwent thorough scrutiny and was subject to intense debates by lawmakers before it was ratified. Senate Finance Committee chief Senator Sonny Angara gave this assurance when he presented the bicameral conference committee report on...
The Senate has approved the proposed budget for next year of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the Department of Finance (DOF), the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), and the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC). The proposed budget of the DBM for...
The Marcos government’s P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 is very much aligned to the administration’s Medium-Term Fiscal Framework (MTFF), which would serve as the country’s blueprint to full economic recovery, Senate Finance Committee chief Senator Sonny Angara said on Tuesday,...
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...
A P10-billion budget has been proposed to fund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict’s (NTF-ELCAC) Barangay Development Program under the 2023 National Expenditure Program (NEP). The Department of Budget and Management (DBM), in its briefing at the House of Representatives...
Following the turnover of the 2023 National Expenditure Program (NEP) to the House of Representatives, Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah Pangandaman explained the huge increase made to the proposed 2023 agriculture sector budget. DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman (Photo from...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has submitted for deliberation the 2023 National Expenditure Program (NEP) to the House of Representatives in a turnover ceremony on Monday, Aug. 22. DBM Secretary Pangandaman (left) turns over the 2023 NEP to Speaker Romualdez (Photo from Speaker...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) will submit to Congress the Marcos administration’s first full-year 2023 proposed budget next week. At the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP) forum, Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said the proposed P5.268-trillion...
House officials led by Speaker Martin Romualdez discussed with Depaetment of Finance (DOF) Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Thursday, Aug. 4 the Marcos administration’s Medium-Term Fiscal Framework (MTFF), which is seen to consolidate fiscal management and resource mobilization toward the fulfillment...
President-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has unveiled his administration’s priority programs and projects for his first full-year budget anchored with the goal of economic reconstruction. In a directive to incoming Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman, Marcos wanted that his 2023 National...
UniTeam Alliance senatorial candidate and former congressman Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro on Friday vowed to prioritize measures that aim to spur Philippine economic recovery following a two-year fight with the COVID-19 pandemic. The former Tarlac representative said reviewing the National...
