00:00The House Appropriations Committee recommends reducing the proposed 2025 budget of the Office
00:06of the Vice President to Php 733 million from the original request of Php 2 billion.
00:12The panel's Senior Vice Chairperson Stella Quimbo says Thursday, September 12, the slashed
00:17Php 1.3 billion will be realigned to projects of the Social Welfare and Development and
00:22Health Departments.
00:23The decision is not yet final and will be subject to the approval of the plenary, which
00:27starts next week.
00:29The move comes after Duterte and the entire OVP snubbed the second round of committee-level
00:33budget deliberations.
00:35Duterte claimed she is being politically harassed by the House, which is led by President Ferdinand
00:40Marx Jr.'s cousin, Speaker Martin Romualdez.
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