The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) has clarified that the Philippines still has no law allowing divorce in the Philippines after a video was uploaded on social media about the measure being approved already. Through its fact-checking arm, "Maging Mapanuri," the PCO said on Wednesday, Jan....
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has called on the government to provide permanent positions for qualified contractual employees in its rightsizing plan. Gatchalian said creating plantilla positions should apply to eligible contractual employees who have been consistently performing the same...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian expressed support for the exclusion of teaching and non-teaching personnel from proposals to rightsize the national government. Gatchalian pointed out that the basic education sector already suffers from a teaching and non-teaching staff shortage. During the 2025 national...
The Senate will prioritize the measure on the rightsizing of the national government to ensure its passage before the 19th Congress adjourns its session in June. Escudero, author and sponsor of Senate Bill No. 890 or the proposed Rightsizing National Government Act, made the promise on...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) should prove the necessity of passing the bill seeking to rightsize government by presenting the data lawmakers have been asking to justify the measure. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said that while he sees the “benefit and wisdom” of the proposed...
House Deputy Minority Leader France Castro and former ACT Teachers Representative Antonio Tinio on Tuesday, December 31, denounced the signing of what they perceived to be a “deceptive” version of the P 6.3-trillion national budget for 2025. Both lawmakers said President Ferdinand...
Bataan 1st district Rep. Geraldine Roman (left), Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre (PPAB) There's absolutely nothing wrong with Malacañang's deferment of the signing of the P6.352-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) for...
For Senator Imee Marcos, President Marcos' veto powers are not enough to resolve the deep problems entrenched in the "very bad" P6.352-trillion 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB). "Di sapat ang line item veto kasi malalim at matindi ang problema ng very bad budget na ito (The line item veto is...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) The House of Representatives supports and respects President Marcos' decision to postpone the signing of the proposed 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), which according to Malacañang would...
Senator Imee Marcos appealed to his brother, President Marcos to scrutinize the proposed P6.352-trillion 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) before signing it. "Nananawagan ako sa aking kapatid, ang ating mahal na Pangulong Bongbong - kung mahina ang aking boses mag-isa, ngayon nawa ay marinig...
All is not lost as President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. still has the power to ask the bicameral conference committee to reconvene and fix all the contentious items in the final version of the P6.532 trillion national budget for 2025, Sen. Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said. Zubiri...
Minutes after the University of North Carolina announced it had hired Bill Belichick as its next head football coach, the Tar Heels’ Instagram account posted a photo of the legendary NFL coach — at no more than 3 years old — sitting in the UNC bleachers. New North Carolina football coach Bill...
