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.'
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Monsod: Marcos gov't second most corrupt, budget reforms needed
Former NEDA Director General Solita Monsod has called for sweeping reforms to the national budgeting process, describing the current Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.…
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SC orders Congress, DBM to account for missing bicam budget records
The Supreme Court has ordered Congress and the Department of Budget and Management to account for missing bicameral budget records tied to alleged P500-billion…
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Bicam’s dirty chess game
The sinister mechanism works under a two-part structure where the bicam moves programmed or priority appropriations to the UA.
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Open Bicam, same old tricks
Hard pork in the form of infrastructure spending remained alive despite assurances that discretionary allocations were being stripped away.
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Budget perversion drags PBBM down
‘They always announce that inflation is low, but the thing is, the public is not feeling this. Prices continue to be high. There’s a lot of hoarding. There’s a…
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The P243-B bad habit
The proposed spending plan for 2026, while more ‘orderly,’ still has huge provisions for the pork barrel through the unprogrammed appropriations, which…
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Bicam report on 2026 budget OK'd, ratification follows
Lawmakers from the House and Senate have signed the bicameral conference committee report reconciling differences in the proposed P6.793-trillion 2026 national…
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Bicam panel signs 2026 national budget report focused on ‘human development’
Congress has signed the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed 2026 national budget, emphasizing human development priorities in education,…
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Sotto: No blind ratification of Bicam report for 2026 budget
Senate President Vicente Sotto III says the Senate will ratify the 2026 national budget only after receiving a clear, near-final enrolled copy, warning against…
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Senate majority hails Bicam approval of ‘most transparent’ National Budget in recent memory
Senate majority leaders on Thursday welcomed the bicameral conference committee’s approval of the proposed P6.793-trillion national budget for 2026, calling it…
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Bicam concludes debates on 2026 spending outlay, assures no reenacted budget
The bicameral conference committee concluded deliberations on the proposed P6.7-trillion 2026 national budget, easing fears of a reenacted budget as lawmakers…
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House warns MAIFIP cuts could hurt 1M
House lawmakers warn that cutting MAIFIP funding below ₱49.2 billion in the 2026 budget could deprive 1.1 million indigent patients of crucial medical…
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Senate reviews DPWH adjustments
‘We want the DPWH to come back to the table and give the proper computation. He (Dizon) said there are 10,000 projects. They should count them and tell us the…
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Senate postpones third day of budget bicam
The Senate postponed the third day of bicameral talks on the 2026 national budget amid unresolved issues on the Department of Public Works and Highways…
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