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00:00A congressman denied that it was illegal to fill in the blanks in the BICAM report of the 2025 National Budget.
00:09That's why the issue will be brought to the Supreme Court.
00:12The Senate President thinks that there's nothing wrong with the process.
00:15Watch this. This is Joseph Moro.
00:17This is Joseph Moro.
00:47For me, this is uncharted waters because you can only have a re-enacted budget if there's no approved budget.
01:00If there's an approved budget, it will be declared invalid.
01:04It will be easier for the Congress to pass the budget again.
01:09It's possible because an error in legislation can be corrected only with another legislation.
01:17It's a big attempt.
01:18The President denied the blanks. He signed the General Appropriations Act.
01:23This is the law that will pass the budget of the government for this year.
01:27But Ungab said it's right that there's no blank in the enrolled bill.
01:30This is the copy that was removed from the BICAM report that was approved by the Congress and signed by the President.
01:36The problem is that the BICAM report was ratified by the Congress
01:40and the blanks were included in the enrolled bill.
01:43This is illegal because whatever was added to the enrolled bill did not pass the ratification.
01:50Who's the magician? The one who did the budget.
01:52The seeing it after, that's not what was ratified.
01:56Ungab showed on the GMA Integrated News
01:59the email of the House Secretariat that was copied by the Bicameral Conference Report
02:04to more than 300 congressmen last Saturday night of December 11.
02:09Around 7 p.m. last night, the BICAM report of the 2025 budget was ratified by the Camera.
02:15Why was it ratified? It was ratified because no one saw it.
02:22Senator Amy Marcos was the first to say that there are blanks in the BICAM report,
02:27but she did not sign it. She was shocked.
02:30I was shocked and I did not sign it because I was afraid of the blanks and the lack of data.
02:39There are two different documents that they are referring to.
02:42One is the BICAM report, which is really blank and has a lack of data.
02:47The other is the GAA, which is already full of numbers.
02:52It's already full. It's not completely blank.
02:55The GAA is the one that was signed.
02:57What's shocking is the BICAM report. Why was it confirmed that there are blank amounts?
03:05Ma'am, did you see the enrolled bill?
03:07Of course.
03:08It's not there anymore.
03:09It's not there anymore because the one that was signed is already full.
03:13The Congress ratified the Panokalam budget on December 11.
03:17On December 20, it was submitted to President Bongbong Marcos.
03:21On December 30, the President signed the national budget.
03:25According to the GMA Integrated News Research,
03:28the number of blanks in the BICAM report is not less than Php 138.36 billion.
03:37Php 110 billion is for the programs of the Department of Agriculture
03:41and the rest are subsidies for government corporations.
03:45There is nothing wrong with the process of the budget of Senate President Francis Chiza Escudero.
03:50They showed the first copy that I signed.
03:53The Committee on Appropriation of Finance was authorized to correct and fill it.
03:59It was also stated in the last paragraph of the BICAM report.
04:03If there is a difference in the GAA in the BICAM report,
04:09the next will be the GAA, the enrolled bill of the GAA.
04:14According to our Supreme Court,
04:16in the long and many decisions, the next will be the enrolled bill,
04:21the signed version of the law of the President,
04:25of the Leader of the House and of the Senate and of the Secretary General of the two Houses.
04:30That will govern.
04:31Now, if there is a lack there, it is right to question it.
04:35Or if someone is released because it was filled with blanks,
04:39it is right not to release it and not to allow it to be released.
04:43The congressman knows that.
04:45He is complaining and raising his points regarding this matter.
04:50Escudero thinks...
04:51The election is near.
04:52The political color is too bright now.
04:55And maybe in the next days,
04:58let's not be surprised with additional stories, attacks or punishments like this.
05:05We are still waiting for the statement of Speaker Martin Romualdez.
05:09For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong, your witness.
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