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00:00Some senators criticized the member of the Bicameral Conference Committee for not having blanks in their 2025 national budget.
00:08According to a congressman, the Bicam report has blanks, which is typical of the Congress.
00:15Jonathan Andal brought you the latest news.
00:18The GME Integrated News obtained a copy of the Bicam report of the 2025 national budget from Congressman Raul Manuel of Kabataan Party List,
00:28and it matches the blanks in the documents issued by Congressman Isidro Ungab and former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:37Manuel said that the Bicam report has blanks, which is typical of the Congress.
00:43The Bicam report was given to all congressmen last December before it was included in the plenary to be ratified.
00:51But the problem is that the soft copy was only submitted less than a week before the ratification.
00:57While the printed copy was only given less than an hour before it was included in the plenary.
01:03That's why it wasn't ratified properly.
01:06It took a long time to ratify it.
01:11There were endings, but we didn't see the blanks right away because we're not used to having those.
01:20I just encountered that the budget was ratified and there were blanks.
01:25According to the GME Integrated News, this page, for example, of the document held by Ungab,
01:31has the same blanks as the document held by Manuel.
01:35But it turns out that there are more signatures in the document from Manuel and some of them are different.
01:42The GME Integrated News is trying to get an official copy of the Bicam report from the camera.
01:48In the process of passing the budget, after the Bicam report is ratified,
01:52this will be the basis of the General Appropriations Bill or GAB that will be submitted to the President.
01:57It's time for the President to sign it so that it can be passed.
01:59This is what is called GAA or General Appropriations Act.
02:03Manuel's question is,
02:05The Bicam report that was ratified by the camera includes the blanks.
02:11After ratification and before signing, who filled in the blanks?
02:17So there should be an answer to that until the Bicam and the President can be answered.
02:25Even the President's brother, Senator Aimee Marcos, said in December that she didn't sign the Bicam report because it's blank paper.
02:34I assure the people that I will never sign any paper until the budget of 2025 or the Bicam report that will help reduce the money in legitimate projects.
02:50How can I sign a blank paper?
02:53The media tried to get a new comment from Senator Aimee but it ran away.
02:57Senator Wynne Gatchalian and Joel Villanueva said that the member of the Bicam and the one who signed the Bicam report has no blanks in the mentioned document.
03:06In my team, we didn't see any blanks because it should be balanced.
03:10That's what we always look for.
03:12So I have a whole team that looks at the budget before signing it.
03:17I didn't see any blanks.
03:19I didn't see any blanks whatsoever.
03:21But I'm not closing the rumors that we heard that there are some that don't have items.
03:33Senate President Chiz Escudero and Senate Finance Committee Chair Grace Poe did not comment.
03:39In the House of Representatives, Speaker Martin Romualdez and former House Appropriations Committee Chair Zaldico did not comment.
03:45First, President Marcos said that Duterte is lying because there are no blanks in his General Appropriations Act.
03:54Jonathan Andal reporting for GMA Integrated News.