FACT CHECK: Imee Marcos inaccurately claims Bicol has ‘P150B’ flood control budget
Sen. Imee Marcos inaccurately claimed that the Bicol Region had a P150-billion budget for flood control.
Sen. Imee Marcos inaccurately claimed that the Bicol Region had a P150-billion budget for flood control.
A fake quote card circulating online claims that dismissed mayor Alice Guo challenged Sen. Risa Hontiveros to investigate the alleged blank items in the bicameral report of the 2025 national budget.
Posts online are spreading the false claim that President Ferdinand Marcos signed the 2025 national budget that was allegedly filled with blank items.
Abines falsely claims parts of 2025 budget were left blank. The pages he showed were not in the GAA but in the bicameral committee report.
Cuts made by Congress in the annual budget in the last three years had reached P1.042 trillion, broken down into: P219 billion in the 2013 GAA, P449.5 billion in 2024 and P373 billion in 2025.
The final shape of the 2025 budget will be a test of the Marcos administration's adherence to the principles of transparency and accountability and his declared policy of prudent spending. Can he pass the test?
The annual budget program, which is the single most important piece of legislation Congress scrutinizes and approves every year, has become a tool in aid of reelection, cunningly touted as pro-poor.
A YouTube video falsely claimed that House lawmakers threatened to have Vice President Sara Duterte arrested and axed her office's budget for 2025.