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...
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...
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...
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...
It was a Bohol mayor who ignited the passion of independent presidential candidate Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson to scrutinize the national budget. At the start of a meeting with representatives of sectoral groups in Bohol on Tuesday, Lacson thanked Jagna Mayor Joseph Rañola for teaching him...
Senatorial candidate Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro said on Sunday he is optimistic that the next set of members in Congress would play a crucial role in helping the new administration manage its public debt with P12-trillion worth of loans. The former Tarlac represenative and 1989 Bar toopnotcher said...
Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson on Friday, Feb. 25 said keeping the national budgets for the coming years fat-free would be crucial in helping the country recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lacson stressed this as he voiced his support for the National...
The current P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022 will provide a 10-figure subsidy to several government-owned coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment hospitals in Quezon City. Quezon City mayoralty bet, Anakalusugan Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor (Photo from Mike Defensor's Facebook) According...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) received a budget amounting to P24.268 billion for 2022 under the P5.024-trillion national budget signed by President Duterte on Dec. 30. (DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña's Facebook page) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Sunday reiterated the importance of ensuring the country’s healthcare system is fully funded in order to fully overcome the challenges of COVID-19 amid emerging threats of the ongoing pandemic. Go, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, said this is why he...
Re-electionist Senator Leila de Lima on Monday said she hopes that the budget increase for the local government units (LGUs) in the 2022 national budget would empower them in their respective areas of jurisdiction. De Lima said the start of the implementation of the Supreme Court’s Mandanas...
