00:00President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says on Monday, December 16, that the administration is working
00:05to reinstate the 12 billion pesos cut from the 2025 budget of the Department of Education.
00:11He says, quote, 12 billion pesos is only sufficient to maintain what we're already doing, when
00:15in fact, we have to do more.
00:17On Thursday, December 12, Education Secretary Sonny Angara expresses his disappointment
00:22over the 10 billion peso budget cut for the Debt-Bed Computerization Program, or DCP.
00:27He says the cut could have funded thousands of gadgets for public school children.
00:31Debt-Bed's budget was cut by 12 billion pesos after last week's bicameral conference.
00:36The cut lowers the 2025 budget allocation to 737 billion pesos from the president's
00:42proposed 748.65 billion pesos.
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