00:00Mr. President said he will not sign a budget that is not fully aligned with the NEP. Does that mean the House cannot?
00:06I will not allow a budget on the floor to pass that is a mutation of the NEP or that has become too far off from the NEP.
00:15As majority leader, I won't allow that.
00:18Well, it's the prerogative of the House to pull from certain
00:30agencies that haven't been utilizing their funds.
00:34You can see the name of the utilization rate.
00:37It means that you pay 10 pesos.
00:39If you only pay 10 pesos for a year, why don't you pay 10 pesos if you don't pay for it?
00:46We just put it to other agencies that can pay for such a kind of fund.
00:53So, it's the prerogative of the House to do that.
00:56It's part of the checks and balances of the government.
01:00But again, if there is a tendency in which it's taken too far, which the President thinks happened last year, that was his logic.
01:13And that's what he was alluding to when he said he wasn't scared to be enough about it.
01:18Because in the opinion of the President, it's all over the last year.
01:22So, I won't allow that.
01:25So, I'm not allowed.
01:26So, I'm allowed.
01:27So, I'll just let him know.
01:28So, I don't know.
01:29I'm allowed.
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