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00:00After President Bongbong Marcos signed the P6.3 trillion Peso 2025 National Budget on December 30,
00:10former President Rodrigo Duterte said that the country's budget was wrong.
00:16Based on what he said in a copy of the BICAM report that he held.
00:20These are my blanks.
00:24I didn't even pass a low with blanks.
00:28He said this in a special episode of the podcast called Basta Dabawenyo,
00:33which was uploaded to the YouTube channel of his son, Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte.
00:37Former President Isidro Ungab of the 3rd District of Davao City is also here,
00:42who became the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee under the administration of Duterte and Binigno Aquino III.
00:48Ungab was noticed in the 13 pages of the BICAM report of the 2025 budget,
00:54that there are blanks in the amount of the alleged funds,
00:58such as the funds of the National Irrigation Administration or NIA,
01:02and the Philippine Coconut Authority or PCA.
01:05Most of the blanks are in the funds of the Department of Agriculture,
01:09such as the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources or BIFAR,
01:14small-scale irrigation projects,
01:16and Agricultural Machines Equipment and Facilities.
01:20There are also blanks in the unprogrammed appropriations.
01:23This is the first time that I saw a BICAM Rural Conference Committee report that has blanks.
01:30I was shocked.
01:32We can see that the BICAM report is defective.
01:35Why was it signed by the members?
01:39So the House and the Senate ratified a defective BICAM report.
01:45In other words, we are affected.
01:49It's like you issued a blank check.
01:52What does that mean?
01:54Are they the ones who will issue it? The Secretary or the Director?
01:58What kind of nonsense is that?
02:03Because of that, Duterte said,
02:05the 2025 National Budget has no visa, so it should not be implemented.
02:11I would like to remind Congress,
02:16that is wrong.
02:18It's invalid.
02:20Please correct it.
02:23Or recall the budget
02:26and
02:29demand an explanation as to why it came to you as a blank check.
02:37That is forcification of law.
02:40Perjury or whatever.
02:43It's a criminal action.
02:46You can all go to jail for that.
02:49If I were to ask,
02:52it should be brought to the Supreme Court because the President has already signed it.
02:56It is possible that Ungab has joined the petitioners asking the Supreme Court
03:01to declare the 2025 budget invalid and unconstitutional.
03:06For now, the lawyers are preparing one more complaint about this.
03:10The signature of President Marcos in the National Budget was delayed
03:14because it was necessary to review it.
03:17In the signed National Budget,
03:19the President did not approve the 26 billion in DPWH
03:24and 186 billion in Unprogrammed Appropriations
03:28because it is not in line with the priority programs of his administration.
03:33Jonathan Andal, reporting for GMA Integrated News.
03:38Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, former President Rodrigo Duterte
03:44and Davao City Congressman Isidro Ungab
03:47said that the 2025 National Budget is a blank check.
03:51According to Bersamin, this is a malicious spread of fake news.
03:55He also said that each page of the 2025 National Budget
03:59was censored before it was signed by President Bongbong Marcos.
04:03The approved version of the 2025 General Appropriations Act
04:07can be found on the website of the Department of Budget and Management.
04:11There is no program, activity, or project that blanked the budget.
04:16GMA Integrated News is still trying to get a statement
04:20from the Leader of the House and Senate.
04:23Wait for the statement of President Bongbong Marcos
04:26compared to the statement of former President Duterte.
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