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00:00The Senate and the House of Representatives have already ratified the final version of the more than Php 6 trillion national budget for 2025.
00:08The President just needs to sign it to make it a law.
00:13Witness, Mahab Gonzales.
00:15There are those who hoped that the allocation would go down after the Php 6.352 trillion was included in the bicameral conference committee
00:27which is the equivalent of the 2025 national budget,
00:30along with the additional funds from the DPWH, Department of National Defense, the Camera, and the Office of the President.
00:38But in the education sector, Php 45 billion was reduced in the DepEd, CHED, and SUCs
00:45Before the budget was approved in the bicameral conference committee, there was a long discussion in the fund for the assistance for the Kapos Angkita Program or AKAP.
00:52The fund was removed from the version of the Senate for this purpose.
00:55But in the bicameral conference committee, the fund was returned but the amount was lower.
00:59Php 26 billion was approved in the bicameral conference committee from the original Php 39 billion allocated by the Camera.
01:06It can now be used not only by congressmen but also by senators.
01:12We clarified the guidelines for this because before, this was only a House initiative.
01:19But as a co-equal body and for transparency, the Senate also has the opportunity to help through AKAP.
01:40More or less like that.
01:41We can have rearrangements now with the Senate. We're looking forward to that. We were supported by the Senate.
01:47But according to the Senate Committee on Finance Chairperson Grace Poe, the distribution of assistance still depends on the needs of those in need.
01:55The fund is also under the DSWD.
01:58The Php 74 billion subsidy for PhilHealth in 2025 was removed from the bicameral conference committee.
02:04The transfer of PhilHealth funds to the National Treasury has become controversial this year.
02:10According to Poe, PhilHealth has Php 600 billion in reserve funds and it needs to be used first.
02:16The fund of the Office of the Vice President remained at Php 733 billion.
02:21Until recently, the OVP did not have a formal or informal request to add their fund.
02:27The Office of the Vice President still has a chance to help.
02:34They have a social services allotment of Php 600 million that they can use for that.
02:42They did not lose it and that's what I've been saying since the beginning.
02:46They are still capacitated.
02:48The reaction of Vice President Sara Duterte.
02:51We do not expect anything about the budget of the Office of the Vice President anymore.
02:58I did say that I'm not the problem.
03:00The problem of the Philippines is poverty, hunger, corruption and all the other peace and order issues.
03:10But it is clear right now that they consider me as the problem already.
03:18For GMA Integrated News, Mav Gonzales is your witness.
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