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Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on 2027 budget.

  1. Dennis Coronacion

    Game of musical chairs

    The complete dissolution of the UniTeam coalition, shattered by the transactional rift between the Marcos and Duterte camps, further accelerated these…

  2. Housecleaning starts

    Housecleaning starts

    The scale of the problem became clear when the finance panel’s staff compared the NEP with the House bill and found that the number of DPWH projects had…

  3. Driving with the fishes

    Driving with the fishes

    A system in which each stage can say ‘verification isn’t my job’ is not a system of checks. It is a relay race where everyone runs a leg, and no one is…

  4. ‘Deeply troubled’ by a troubling budget

    ‘Deeply troubled’ by a troubling budget

    The President’s line-item veto remains the last institutional firewall. Whether he uses it or not, it will answer a question more consequential than any single…

  5. Unraveling quickens

    Unraveling quickens

    The sectoral groups challenged the House version of the P7.2-trillion budget, which passed on third reading 281 to 13, but with P180 billion more added for the…

  6. DEPUTY Speaker Ronaldo “Ronnie” Puno

    Puno: Blame Marcos’ men over roads at sea

    Deputy Speaker Ronaldo “Ronnie” Puno blamed executive agencies for errors in the proposed 2027 national budget after farm-to-market road projects worth…

  7. Romualdez gone, but pork lives on

    Romualdez gone, but pork lives on

    Romualdez’s fall would have left behind a convenient fiction: that the scandal was of one man’s making, and that his removal means the problem has been solved.…

  8. BANGKO Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Eli M. Remolona Jr.’s optimism that growth and economic activity would most likely rebound early next year is based on his expectation that government and public infrastructure spending will eventually ramp up after experiencing major delays. A core pillar of his outlook is the assumption that high inflation will eventually moderate, helping restore purchasing power and economic activity. The BSP raised its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 5.50 percent on Thursday, 22 October 2026.

    Remolona pushes GDP recovery to Q1 2027

    Citing expected recovery in Philippine economic activity as a key consideration in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ decision Thursday last week to deliver a…

  9. MAN for all business seasons His successor, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III,  gave the highest accolade to former Finance Secretary Gary Teves, saying he had led the Department of Finance ‘when the world was crumbling.’

    Managing purse when world was crumbling

    Raising interest rates is a tool for demand-driven price pressures, not for the supply-side shocks now at work: oil, food and weather.

  10. SENATE President Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian

    DPWH budget seen oozing P455B in pork lard

    The proposed 2027 Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) budget is facing scrutiny over ₱455 billion in projects flagged for incomplete or questionable…

  11. SENATOR Panfilo Lacson

    Lacson wants continuous Bicam livestream

    'When the budget bill reaches the Bicam, as happened last year, there were many suspensions where lawmakers were whispering in a corner, away from the cameras.'