• 6 hours ago
Wala umanong bisa at di raw dapat ipatupad ang mahigit 6-point-3-trillion pesos na 2025 national budget, ayon kay Dating Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Napuna kasi niya at ng isa pang mambabatas ang umano'y mga blangko sa hawak nilang kopya ng Bicam Report ng budget.


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00:00Without a visa, the 6.3 trillion pesos of the 2025 national budget should not be implemented by the former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:10He and another lawmaker are the ones who broke the blank in their copy of the BICAM report of the budget.
00:17Jonathan Andal is on the case.
00:19After President Bongbong Marcos signed the 6.3 trillion pesos of the 2025 national budget on December 30,
00:31the former President Rodrigo Duterte was the first to accuse the country of having a budget error
00:37based on the copy of the BICAM report that he held.
00:41These are the blanks.
00:45You didn't pass a law with blanks.
00:49He said this in a special episode of the podcast, Basta Da Bawenyo,
00:53which was uploaded to the YouTube channel of his son, Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte.
00:58Congressman Isidro Ungab of the 3rd District of Davao City,
01:03who became the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee under the administration of Duterte and Binigno Aquino III,
01:09said he noticed 13 pages in the BICAM report of the 2025 budget that had blanks in the amount of the previous fund,
01:19such as the fund of the National Irrigation Administration or NIA and the Philippine Coconut Authority or PCA.
01:26Most of the blanks were in the fund of the Department of Agriculture,
01:30such as the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources or BIFAR,
01:35small-scale irrigation projects,
01:37and Agricultural Machines Equipment and Facilities.
01:41There were also blanks in the Unprogrammed Appropriations.
01:44This is the first time that I saw a BICAM Rural Conference Committee report that had blanks.
01:51I was shocked.
01:52We can see that the BICAM report is defective.
01:56Why was it signed by members?
02:00So the House and the Senate ratified a defective BICAM report.
02:06In other words, our funds were affected.
02:10It's like you issued a blank check.
02:13What does that mean?
02:15Are they the ones who will issue it? The Secretary or the Director?
02:19What kind of nonsense is that, Binigno?
02:24Because of that, Duterte said, the 2025 National Budget has no visa, so it should not be implemented.
02:32I would like to remind Congress,
02:37that's wrong.
02:39It's invalid.
02:41Please correct it.
02:44Or recall the budget
02:47and
02:50demand an explanation as to why you received a blank check like that.
02:57That is falsification of law.
03:00Perjury or whatever.
03:04It's a criminal action.
03:07You can all go to jail for that.
03:10If I were to ask,
03:13it should be brought to the Supreme Court because the President has already signed it.
03:17It is possible that Ungab joined the petitioners asking the Supreme Court
03:22to declare the 2025 budget invalid and unconstitutional.
03:27For now, lawyers are preparing to file a complaint about this.
03:31Malacanang and the Senate and the House of Representatives
03:35have already listened to the reaction of JMI-Integrated News
03:37to confirm if the copy that Duterte is holding is the one that was signed by the President.
03:42But they still have no answer.
03:44It is noteworthy that President Marcos' signing of the National Budget was delayed
03:48because he said that a review was needed.
03:51In the signed National Budget, the President did not approve
03:56the 26 billion in DPWH and 186 billion in unprogrammed appropriations
04:02because it does not meet the priority programs of his administration.
04:07For JMI-Integrated News, Jonathan Andal, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.

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