Vice President Sara Duterte failed to appear at the House of Representatives on Tuesday to defend the 2024 budget of her office and of the Department of Education, which she also heads.

Due to a "possible conflict of schedule," Duterte skipped the OVP's and DepEd's budget deliberations, prompting the House to move it to tomorrow, along with those of other agencies.

Duterte is seeking P2.395 billion for the OVP and P758.6 billion for DepEd, including P500 million and P150 million in confidential funds, respectively, for 2024.

The rescheduling of deliberations on the proposed OVP and DepEd budgets came a day after Duterte made headlines that revealed the OVP spent P125 million in confidential funds in 2022 in merely 11 days — not 19 — as initially claimed by some opposition lawmakers.