00:00Good morning, Madam Vice President.
00:03First of all, we would like to thank you for the opportunity you gave us to interview you.
00:08But before anything else, what is the reason you gave us the opportunity to interview you?
00:14Thank you very much for the opportunity you gave me today.
00:20I gave this interview because I want the people of the country to know
00:26and explain to the people of the country why I am not answering the question and answer
00:32in the Budget Hearing of the Office of the Vice President for our Budget Proposal 2025.
00:39I want the people of the country to understand where I am coming from.
00:45Madam Vice President, in the past few weeks,
00:47the hearings of the House of Representatives for the 2025 OVP Budget were full of news.
00:54Some say that you are praying, especially in the House of Representatives.
01:00They say that you are not used to being asked about things,
01:04so that is why you became like this.
01:07What is your reaction to this?
01:08I am used to being asked about things,
01:13that is why I give interviews even if they are not arranged interviews,
01:19they are ambush interviews of the media where they get the questions of the people of the country.
01:24I am used to that.
01:26And the people of the country know that I am not a bratinella or a spoiled brat
01:33because they have known me since I was still in Davao,
01:36since I was still a mayor until I became Vice President.
01:41The people of the country know that I do not abuse my power and authority
01:47in all the offices that I have held.
01:52The whole country knows that I am not a spoiled brat.
01:58In fact, when I was growing up,
02:01my friends were not from a political family,
02:06from a rich family, from a powerful family.
02:10They were just ordinary people and that is what I raised.
02:16An ordinary environment of an ordinary citizen of our country.
02:26In my opinion,
02:28it is not just the members of the House of Representatives
02:37who do not get what they want and they want to hear the answer.
02:43And it is not just the members of the House of Representatives
02:47who answer their questions.
02:55So, in my opinion, this is also one of their attacks,
02:59that they are like a bratinella,
03:01even though I answered their questions,
03:03it is not just what they want.
03:07Madam Vice President,
03:10regarding the budget hearing,
03:12do you believe that the Congress really has the power
03:15to voice the budget of each government agency?
03:19Of course, yes.
03:20It is stated in our Constitution
03:23that our Congress has the power of the purse.
03:27That is why there are budget hearings
03:30and there is a passing of the budget from the House of Representatives
03:34to our Senate, to our Congress.
03:37We recognize that.
03:39That is why we went to the Senate hearing,
03:43we went to the House of Representatives hearing
03:47because we presented a budget.
03:52What I did was, I said,
03:54we will forgo the question and answer part of the budget hearing.
04:02But regarding that, Madam Vice President,
04:04shouldn't the people of the country know
04:07about the OVP Fund
04:09and where it will be used for 2025?
04:12Yes.
04:13It is very important for me that the people of the country
04:16should know about the Office of the Vice President budget proposal.
04:19That is why before we went to the Senate,
04:21before we went to the House,
04:23we published our budget proposal
04:27on our website, the Office of the Vice President,
04:31on our social media platforms.
04:33We made it easy for the people of the country to understand
04:37where the budget proposal of the Office of the Vice President will go.
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