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THERE is nothing unconstitutional with increasing the Executive’s unprogrammed appropriations in the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri yesterday said as he defended the decision of the bicameral conference budget committee to hike the allocation by P455 billion.
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) will hold a second round of bidding next year for the full automation of the 2025 elections following the failed bidding for the Full Automation Transparency Audit Count (FASTrAC) last week.
SENATORS yesterday gave varied reactions to a fresh bid by the leadership of the House of Representatives to revive Charter change (Cha-cha) initiatives.
SENATE minority leader Aquilino Pimentel III yesterday said the proposed 2024 national budget may be questioned before the Supreme Court (SC) for being unconstitutional as it supposedly exceeds P5.768 trillion, which was the amount requested by Malacañang under its National Expenditures Program (NEP) for next year.
THE Senate yesterday ratified the P5.768 trillion 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) hours after it was approved by the bicameral conference committee which reconciled the disagreeing provisions in the versions approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives.
SENATE President Juan Miguel Zubiri yesterday said senators are set to ratify today the reconciled version of the proposed P5.768 trillion national budget of the Marcos administration for next year.
DESPITE the recommendation of Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel III that the Office of the President be stripped of its intelligence funds and its confidential funds reduced, these have remained “unchanged” in the bicameral conference committee tackling the P5.786 trillion budget for next year.
SEN. Ronald dela Rosa yesterday urged appropriate government agencies to check the veracity of an allegation made during a Senate committee hearing that Kabataan party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel is supposedly involved in the recruitment of young students to the communist movement.