STATEMENT
“Hidden in the 222 pages of 2025 General Appropriations Acts (GAA) were at least 10 pages with blank spaces where the amount[s] of budget were supposed to be written.”
Source: Jun Abines Facebook page, The greatest robbery ever caught on camera (archive), Jan. 19, 2025
FACT
The 4,057-page General Appropriations Act of 2025, or Republic Act No. 12116, signed into law on Dec. 30, 2024 does not have “blank spaces” opposite the agencies Abines had cited. The photocopied pages of the papers he showed were nowhere in the GAA, but in the 222-page bicameral conference committee report.
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