00:00President Bongbong Marcos and his cabinet are back to work to pass the 2025 national budget, which he is chasing to pass on Monday.
00:10Ivan Mayrina was also there.
00:15After Christmas, the President and his cabinet are back to work to pass the 2025 national budget,
00:22which was signed on Monday, December 30, according to Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin.
00:27It's a 10-day delay from the first announcement of the signing of the bill.
00:32Some of the Congressmen and Senators have already passed the budget.
00:35Their priority is to fight for the Constitution.
00:39The DPWH budget fell to more than a trillion pesos in the last version.
00:44It's bigger than the education sector's fund, which should have the highest budget priority, according to the Constitution.
00:50According to Bersamin, he assures that the review that will be conducted on the passage of the Constitution will increase the budget,
00:57and is in line with the priorities of the administration.
01:00The President is careful about the importance and spending of the country's limited funds.
01:05Senator Bing Subinin, a member of the Senate panel of the Bicameral Conference Committee,
01:10said that the 2025 national budget in the Constitution should be followed so that it will not be questioned in the Supreme Court
01:17and the implementation will continue.
01:19Bersamin said that the President will veto or remove some items from the budget,
01:24including some projects aimed at infrastructure, under the DPWH fund.
01:29It was signed by DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan.
01:33Projects that are not well identified because it may be difficult to implement.
01:39Anyway, there is no location, locational indication. There are such projects.
01:46Another source of GMA Integrated News added that it includes basketball and tennis courts,
01:51bypass roads and water management projects.
01:54Other projects will also be released.
01:57But it doesn't mean that the funds will be automatically released.
02:01For GMA Integrated News, Ivan Mejrina, Katutok, 24 Hours.
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