Home drops plan to return proposed 2026 finances to DBM

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Home leaders agree to only conduct longer committee-level deliberations for businesses with misguided finances proposals

MANILA, Philippines – Home leaders walked again on their earlier proposal for Speaker Martin Romualdez to utterly return to the manager the proposed 2026 nationwide finances which they’ve described as “mangled.”

Deputy Speaker Ronaldo Puno mentioned on Thursday, September 4, that get together leaders met the earlier evening with Romualdez, who advised them that “possibly” not all businesses’ finances include errors and have to be despatched again.

Puno and different businesses beforehand flagged discrepancies within the finances of the Division of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the Division of the Inside and Native Authorities (DILG), and the Division of Agriculture (DA). These embody allocations for non-existent tasks, in addition to supposed duplicate entries.

“The Speaker mentioned possibly not all businesses want [to have their budget proposals fixed],” Puno mentioned in an interview with radio station DZBB, referring to the finances proposals of the Division of Social Welfare and Growth (DSWD), the Division of Schooling (DepEd), and the Fee on Elections (Comelec).

Puno mentioned Home leaders agreed to only conduct longer committee-level deliberations for affected businesses.

“The Speaker mentioned as a substitute of returning every thing, we simply [point out errors] per district allocations, even when it takes us two days complaining [during committee deliberations]. However you level out each single downside that each single district has,” he added.

Palawan 2nd District Consultant Jose Alvarez of the Nationalist Individuals’s Coalition additionally advised reporters that as a substitute of returning the finances to the Division of Finances and Administration (DBM), Finances Secretary Amenah Pangandaman and DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon would be the ones to go to the Home to handle the errors.

Due to this, Home spokesperson Princess Abante mentioned finances deliberations within the Home will proceed as scheduled.

“Because it’s not an precise act of returning the finances, lawmakers will intentionally evaluation the finances proposals of each division to make sure that corrections in every company’s [budget] will come from them,” Abante mentioned.

The President’s finances, formally referred to as the Nationwide Expenditure Program (NEP), is a doc ready yearly by the DBM, submitted to Congress, which converts it into the Basic Appropriations Invoice (GAB). The legislative department’s activity is to scrutinize the finances proposal of the manager.

Marcos acknowledged on Monday, September 1, the presence of “insertions” within the 2026 NEP, in addition to the necessity for it “to be cleaned out correctly.

On Wednesday, September 3, he ordered Dizon and Pangandaman to “make the required corrections” within the proposed 2026 finances of DPWH. – Rappler.com