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00:00Before the witness, the Panukalang 6.352 Trillion Pesos National Budget for 2025 has been approved by the Camera.
00:10285 congressmen voted for the Panukalang while 3 of them voted against it.
00:18The budget of the Office of the Vice President, which is more than half of the original budget, was approved by the Camera.
00:27The witness is Mackie Pulido.
00:30The Office of the Vice President is asking for a budget of more than 2 Billion Pesos.
00:37But just a while ago, in the Plenary of the Camera, it was only 733 Million Pesos based on the recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations.
00:46The budget was removed from some programs of the OVP that are duplication or being done by other agencies.
00:52It is still high if it will be approved because the Panukala of ACT Teachers Party List Representative Franz Castro
00:57lowered the budget to 529 Million Pesos.
01:01It is enough to not affect the annual salary of the OVP.
01:05Because there is no money, we don't know where to use the funds.
01:12That's why, Mr. Speaker, my Panukala, my proposed budget in the Office of the Vice President is 529,593,700.
01:26These are just mere manifestations and the body can exercise its plenary powers to either accept or to reject any possible proposals,
01:38especially if it's an individual amendment.
01:41Because Vice President Sara Duterte is still a no-show, or even if she was laughed at by her staff, no one asked.
01:47Despite the frustration of Makabayan Block, where did the 70 Million Pesos of the confidential fund go,
01:54which was used up in just 11 days of 2022, which was passed by the Commission on Audit?
02:00Why didn't the OVP show up?
02:03Is she abandoning her duty as Vice President?
02:09The answer to the question of budget deliberation is duty.
02:13Because the money of the people is what is being discussed here.
02:18This is not a choice that can be foregone.
02:22VP Sara said that she will only attend the Senate hearing on the 2025 budget of the OVP.
02:29But she doesn't expect that more than half of the funds allocated by the Committee to the Camera will be returned to their budget.
02:36Congressmen are just looking for information to support the impeachment case against her.
02:42They made another track, the resignation.
02:46They will say that we impeached you for wrongdoing, whatever.
02:50And then this group will say that you should leave because if you don't leave, you will be executed.
02:57If Vice President Duterte insists, she will not resign.
03:00I will not leave because people put me here believing that I will work for the country.
03:10And that is what we did. We worked.
03:12I will not answer to the young guns because I need to answer to the 32 million people who voted for me.
03:24Last night, President Bongbong Marcos certified as urgent the passage of the National Budget for 2025.
03:31If approved by the Camera, the Senate will approve it before unifying the versions of both cases to the Bicameral Conference Committee.
03:39After that, it will be passed to the President for it to become a law.
03:43As of now, the hearings in the Senate Committee are on schedule.
03:47And we hope that it will be approved in time for it to be read and reviewed by the President.
03:54For GMA Integrated News, I am Mackie Pulido, your witness.
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