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Approval of P6.35 T 2025 budget this week eyed
By Nidz Godino
“We have sufficient time to finally agree on budget before yearend… most important piece of legislation Congress passes every year,” Speaker Martin Romualdez said, adding that would give Senate enough time for its own debate-passage process.
House of Representatives is expected to approve proposed P6.352 trillion national budget for 2025 on Wednesday or before Congress goes on break on Friday.
Administration and opposition lawmakers are expected to approve on third and final reading House Bill 10800 or General Appropriations Bill for 2025 on Sept. 25 after two weeks of plenary debates.
Over the weekend, Romualdez said House is adhering to its plenary approval timeline “because we are treating national spending program with urgency without sacrificing transparency.”
First order of business for today is reduced P733-million budget of Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio, who had antagonized congressmen after she refused to answer questions on her previous confidential funds. Her original budget proposal was P2 billion.
Duterte also refused to take her oath before House committee on good government investigating expenditures of OVP from 2022 onwards, flagged by Commission on Audit for questionable disbursements amounting to hundreds of millions of pesos.
“Next year’s spending legislation will serve as our tool for sustained economic development…it will support Agenda for Prosperity programs of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.,” the Speaker said.
In statement, Romualdez stressed budget would also “serve as instrument for government to spread dividends of economic progress through various social protection and financial assistance initiatives, and funding for infrastructures like roads, hospitals, classrooms, seaports and airports, irrigation systems, and transportation networks.”
“We hope our people will feel benefits of growth through programs intended for them in the national budget,” he stressed.
The House leader earlier thanked committee on appropriations led by Ako Bicol party-list Rep. Zaldy Co as chairman and Marikina Rep. Stella Quimbo as senior vice chairperson for shepherding 2025 spending bill.
House Majority Leader and Zamboanga City Rep. Manuel Jose “Mannix” Dalipe, chairman of House committee on rules, said President Marcos is expected to certify proposed 2025 as urgent.
Also to be tackled today are budgets of Dangerous Drugs Board, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Presidential Management Staff, Presidential Legislative Liaison Office, National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, and National Security Council.
House is also expected to discuss today allocations for Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity; National Amnesty Commission, Marawi Compensation Board, Mindanao Development Authority, Energy Regulatory Commission as well as for Departments of Agriculture, Health, and Energy.
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