The next chief of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) wants to revisit the first full-year budget that the incoming administration of Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will submit to Congress. Incoming Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said that the DBM staff will reconvene to go over the...
Senator-elect Rafael “Raffy” Tulfo on Sunday vowed to increase the budget of the judiciary when the Senate starts deliberation on the proposed 2023 national budget in the coming months. Tulfo said his “personal working goal is to push for an increase of at least P6.25-billion so that the...
House Ways and Means Committee chairman and Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda has vowed to push for the Budget Reform Act in the upcoming 19th Congress. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Facebook) “I will refile the bill, hopefully with enhancements from the incoming finance and budget...
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...
Senator Sonny Angara on Tuesday vouched that the upcoming Department of Budget and Management (DBM) secretary of the incoming administration of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. is highly qualified and has an impressive track record. Angara said Amenah Pangandaman, concurrent...
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Assistant Governor Amenah F. Pangandaman has accepted the invitation from President-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to serve as the new administration’s Department of Budget and Management (DBM) secretary. In a statement on Monday, May 30, Pangandaman has pledged...
Presumptive President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. would get P5.086 trillion national budget for 2023, almost a reenactment of the 2022 national budget of P5.024 trillion. The inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) approved on Tuesday, May 24, the proposed appropriations next...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released the sickness and death benefits to public and private healthcare workers (HCWs) who are involved in Covid-19 response this year. In a statement, the budget department said on Sunday, May 15, that it released P1.081 billion to the Department...
The country's judiciary will get more support from the government if Senator Emmanuel 'Manny' Pacquiao wins in the presidential race. Pacquiao gave the assurance on Tuesday as he lamented the lack of budget for the Philippine courts that hinder the lawyers and judges from bringing immediate...
Shown in photo is the distribution of fertilizers to the different typhoon-stricken local government units in Northeastern Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of DA 13 PIO Chief Emmylou T. Presilda via Mike U. Crismundo/Manila Bulletin) BUTUAN CITY – In an effort to sustain their rehabilitation effort on...
The national government's budget deficit declined in the first three-months of the year after revenues grew by double-digits, outpacing the increase in public spending, the Bureau of the Treasury reported. On Wednesday, April 27, the Treasury bureau showed that the government incurred a P316.8...
Presidential candidate Panfilo ‘Ping’ M. Lacson said the national budget is the most important legislation that members of the Senate and the House of Representatives pass every year because without it, government agencies and other state-funded projects could not move to deliver essential...
