SC orders Congress, DBM to account for missing bicam budget records
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Congress and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to account for documents supporting changes made during…
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Congress and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to account for documents supporting changes made during…
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The sinister mechanism works under a two-part structure where the bicam moves programmed or priority appropriations to the UA.
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Hard pork in the form of infrastructure spending remained alive despite assurances that discretionary allocations were being stripped away.
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‘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 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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Members of the bicameral conference committee from both the House of Representatives and the Senate on Sunday signed the committee report reconciling their…
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The bicameral conference committee of Congress signed the report on the proposed 2026 national budget on Sunday, 28 December, with lawmakers underscoring that…
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Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Monday said the upper chamber will act only on a “clear and near-final enrolled copy” of the P6.793 trillion…
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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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The bicameral conference committee has approved an additional P16.52 billion in the 2026 national budget to fully cover the Sin Tax earmarking for the…
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The bicameral conference committee wrapped up Thursday the marathon deliberations on the proposed P6.7-trillion spending plan for 2026, allaying fears of a…
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Students enrolled in allied health sciences programs are set to receive much-needed financial relief after the Bicameral Conference Committee approved the…
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The House of Representatives’ contingent to the Bicameral Conference Committee warned Tuesday that one million beneficiaries of the Medical Assistance for…
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‘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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The bicameral conference committee’s deliberations were postponed as the Senate and the House of Representatives worked to resolve issues related to the…
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The third day of the bicameral conference committee was suspended on Monday, 15 December 2025, due to a deadlock over the proposed 2026 budget of the…
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The bicameral conference committee on the 2026 national budget has approved proposals pushed by Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan to expand the Department of…
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The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) on Sunday expressed dissatisfaction with how lawmakers handled discussions on the proposed P6.7-trillion national budget…
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