00:00A congressman and several groups will now go to the Supreme Court to discuss the 2025 national budget to get rid of the visa.
00:11It is said that adding blanks to the first document drafted by the Congress is illegal and wrong.
00:19The Senate President, Joseph Moro, has an answer to that.
00:24Several groups, including Davao 3rd District Rep. Isidro Ungab, will ask the Supreme Court to remove the 2025 national budget because it did not go through the right process.
00:38It is said that adding blanks to the government's operation is possible.
00:42Ungab is pointing out that it is a wrong process to remove some important documents from the budget even though the legislative process of the Congress is over.
00:50Because both sides of the Congress have ratified the report of the Bicameral Committee that there are blank provisions.
00:57For me, this is uncharted waters because you can only have a reenacted budget if there is no approved budget.
01:06If there is an approved budget, it will be declared invalid.
01:10The Congress will be in a hurry to pass the budget. It's possible because an error in legislation can be corrected only with another legislation.
01:23It's a big mistake.
01:25The President has denied the blanks. He signed the General Appropriations Act.
01:29This is the law that will pass the budget of the government for this year.
01:33But Ungab said, it's right that there are no blanks in the enrolled bill.
01:37This is the copy that was removed from the Bicam report that was ratified by the Congress and signed by the President.
01:42The problem is, the Congress ratified the Bicam report that there are blanks in the enrolled bill.
01:50This is wrong and illegal because whatever was added to the enrolled bill did not go through the ratification.
01:56Who is the magician? The one who did the magic.
01:59The seeing it after, it's not there. It was not ratified.
02:03Ungab showed in the GMA Integrated News the e-mail of the House Secretary and a copy of the Bicameral Conference report
02:10to more than 300 congressmen last Saturday night of December 11.
02:15Around 7 p.m. that night, the Bicam report of the 2025 budget was ratified by the Camera.
02:21The same document. Why was it ratified? It was ratified because there were no blanks.
02:28Senator Amy Marcos was the first to say that there were blanks in the Bicam report that's why she did not sign it.
02:35She was surprised by this.
02:37I was shocked and I did not sign it because I am afraid of blanks and lack of data.
02:46They are referring to two different documents.
02:49One is the Bicam report which is really blank and lacks data.
02:54The other one is the GLA which is already full of numbers. It's already complete.
03:00It's not blank. The GAA itself was signed.
03:04I was surprised by the Bicam report. Why was it ratified that there were blanks?
03:12Did you see the enrolled bill?
03:14Yes, of course.
03:15Did you see it?
03:16No, I did not because it was already signed.
03:20The Congress ratified the Bicam budget on December 11.
03:24On December 20, it was submitted to President Bongbong Marcos.
03:28On December 30, the President signed the national budget.
03:32According to the GMA Integrated News Research, the equivalent value of the blanks in the Bicam report is not less than 138.36 billion pesos.
03:44This 110 billion pesos is for the programs of the Department of Agriculture.
03:49The rest are subsidies for government corporations.
03:52There is nothing wrong with the process of the budget of Senate President Francis Chiza Escudero.
03:57They showed the first copy that I signed.
04:01The copy that I see now, I don't have a signature because I don't know where it came from.
04:06The Committee on Appropriation and Finance was authorized to correct and fill.
04:14It was also stated in the last paragraph of the Bicam report.
04:18If there is a difference between the blanks in the Bicam report, the next one will be the blanks.
04:26The enrolled bill of the blanks.
04:29Escudero thinks...
04:30The election is near.
04:31The color of politics is too bright for now.
04:34And maybe in the coming days, let's not be surprised with additional stories.
04:42We are still waiting for the statement of House Speaker Martin Romualdez.
04:45For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong, for 24 Hours.
04:59For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong, for 24 Hours.
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