00:00The Senate's deliberation on the government's budget for the next year was postponed.
00:05Some Senators helped not to delay the modernization program.
00:10This is the center of the news, Daniel Manalastang.
00:14The Senators in the debate on the government's budget for the next year were postponed.
00:21Some were discussing it with the Defense Department.
00:25Some Senators were asking not to delay the modernization program.
00:30But for Senate President Francis Escudero,
00:33I hope when we give money to the AFP, we don't simply close our eyes to what they're asking for.
00:38That what they will buy from the fund that they are asking for will really be maximized.
00:45Now, many countries are looking at drones.
00:48In fact, many are using drones.
00:51Does the AFP already remember the use of drones?
00:55As for the heated discussion on the PhilHealth fund,
00:58the secretaries always said, we will follow the decision of the Supreme Court.
01:03Of course, we're hoping that we don't have to.
01:05I mean, they are hoping that we don't have to.
01:08But should we be required to return it, then we will find a way to do so.
01:15Senate Minority Leader Coco Pimentel raised the issue of debt.
01:19And his question is,
01:21Does this administration intend to pay down our debt?
01:26They plan to make the economy grow faster than the debt.
01:30So the debt-to-GDP ratio will decrease.
01:511,627 birth certificates of foreign nationals were blocked
01:55by the PSA after its investigation,
01:58finding the documents to be spurious.
02:01Because this is a process that our fellow countrymen need to act in good faith.
02:09And there are no bad intentions, true Filipinos.
02:13In the budget of the Department of Education,
02:15Senator Alan Peter Cayetano wants to return the TAPIAS fund
02:19to the government of 2 billion pesos for basic education facilities.
02:24According to Senator Rocinda Villar,
02:26the Department of Agriculture has enough money for the next typhoon.
02:32No, the Department of Agriculture has a lot of money to help.
02:38They won't be left behind.
02:41It's not just the DA who is helping.
02:43They are helping, but we are also helping.
02:45We are the senators.
02:47It is expected that in the next few days,
02:49the budget deliberations will be followed by other government activities.
02:55Daniel Manalas Taus for Pampansang TV in Pagong, Philippines.
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