Although Camarines Sur 3rd District Rep. Gabriel Bordado Jr. has expressed support for the P5.268-trillion 2023 national budget, he underscored the need to ensure this will benefit the underprivileged and marginalized as he asked for an increased budget for several government programs. Camarines...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has urged the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to consider adopting a policy where government agencies would be the ones to procure for themselves any items or devices allocated for them in the National Expenditure Program (NEP). Cayetano said this would help...
Amid runaway prices of basic goods and an uncertain economic future, the House of Representatives passed on third and final reading Wednesday night, Sept. 28, the biggest annual spending plan in the country's history. (PPAB) Hurdling the 311-strong lower chamber was the 2023 General Appropriations...
Former National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokesperson Lorraine Badoy is “not even a consultant” for the Office of the President (OP) or the anti-insurgency task force, a lawmaker said on Wednesday, Sept. 28, amid the controversy the former official stirred...
The House of Representatives expects to conclude on Wednesday night, Sept 28 the plenary debates on the 2023 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) worth P5.268 trillion, after which they will immediately approve the measure on second and third reading. The House plenary (PPAB) "Tomorrow, we are...
The power of the purse belongs to the House of Representatives, and for this reason the lower chamber has embarked on a mission to pass the P5.268-trillion proposed national budget for 2023 on or before Oct. 1 this year. The House plenary (Ellson A. Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House members...
The House of Representatives has begun the period of sponsorship and debates on the 2023 General Appropriations Bill (GAB). Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Screenshot from Facebook live) Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, delivered his...
The Senate Committee on Finance has started discussions on the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget on Wednesday, September 14. Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno told the Senate finance panel, chaired by Sen. Sonny Angara, that the Marcos administration is committed to pursue a “robust...
The entire judiciary will receive a total of P5.7 billion in additional funds under the proposed national budget for next year, 1-Pacman Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero disclosed on Thursday, Sept. 1. Supreme Court (SC) Romero, who is now the chairman of the House Committee on Poverty Alleviation,...
After years of funding drought, the Department of Agriculture (DA) will finally get it’s much-awaited and -deserved budget hike—set to be at P102.15 billion next year—under the Marcos administration, Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th District Rep. Ralph Recto said on Sunday, Aug. 28. House...
A Visayas lawmaker has raised concerns on the relatively low budgets allocated to Regions 6, 7, and 8, despite it having the same percentage of voting population as Mindanao, as well as being the places where President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has “won handily". Aklan 2nd District Rep....
House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto on Saturday, Aug. 27, raised a red flag on Malacañang’s allotment of P588 billion for “unprogrammed appropriations” in the 2023 national budget. (Photo from Batangas Rep. Ralph Recto’s office) Recto, a representative of Batangas's 6th district, revealed the...
