House budget slashes rail projects
Senator JV Ejercito flagged major changes to the House-approved ₱7.2-trillion 2027 national budget, including ₱130 billion in cuts to foreign-assisted…
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2027 Philippine national budget
Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on 2027 Philippine national budget.
DPWH faced toughest budget review — DBM
‘You can talk to [the] DPWH, and I can certainly say, they’ll tell you – they had the hardest time proposing their 2027 budget.’ — Acting Budget Secretary Kim…
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2027 budget bill hurdles House
The House of Representatives approves the amended ₱7.2-trillion 2027 national budget on third reading, including increased infrastructure funding, ₱107.4…
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Ayudanomics on steroids
Soft pork has fattened the proposed budget ahead of the 2028 elections, with select House members making the changes behind closed doors.
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Stranger things play out in House
The BARSc, under the House Committee on Appropriations, reviews proposed budget amendments and realignments, the stage where legislators’ pet projects are…
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Debt, deficits, scandals beset people’s money
Around 40 percent of the P7.2-trillion budget is already committed to automatic obligations like the National Tax Allotment and debt interest payments.
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Curiouser and curiouser
The bill already passed third reading in the Senate. That was seven months ago. It has also cleared committee in the House. It waits on just one more committee…
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Ejercito: Every budgeted peso must count
‘We do not want farm-to-market roads where there are no farms.’
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Poll-centered budget
The people this budget appears centered on are those running for office in 2028 who will need something to hand out between now and then.
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Now it’s phantom pork
The money did not vanish. It reappeared under the Local Government Support Fund, in a line called financial assistance to local government units worth P34…
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