00:00What is it?
00:02How is it?
00:04It's a big deal.
00:06People don't realize
00:08how to buy the budget.
00:10The budget is a push and pull.
00:12There are groups who want to fund this
00:14and there are other groups who want to fund other things.
00:18So you have to make the case.
00:20Make the case to the public
00:22so you have to make the case to your fellow colleagues
00:24because you're all here at the end of the day
00:26and you will be able to do that.
00:28The good thing now is
00:30I feel or I sense a convergence
00:32happening.
00:34You have moves from the
00:36executive, moves from the legislative,
00:38a very commendable chairman of finance,
00:42Senator Gachalian, who have all
00:44said that they want to push for transparency
00:46and they want to make the 2026
00:48budget the best budget
00:50we've ever seen.
00:52Of course, I've already said that the best budget
00:54needs to be the best budget.
00:56And of course, you're following
00:58what we do in the Senate.
01:00I'm sure you've understood
01:02that what we're doing is not just
01:04a pitch to my colleagues
01:06but it's also a plea to the public.
01:08Right?
01:09We'll make it acceptable
01:10that we don't have a flood control
01:12and education is going to fund.
01:14And it's not just
01:16to fund based on the current spending.
01:18As we know,
01:203.4 million pesos
01:22the classroom
01:23and DPWH.
01:24It should be to fund it
01:25at the right price.
01:26Which for me, I think, is about
01:271.5 to 1.7 million pesos
01:29per classroom.
01:30So, you can double the amount of classroom
01:32if you have a good governance.
01:33If the people themselves
01:34have learned
01:35that the flood control
01:37is right,
01:38we'll fund education
01:39we'll fund classrooms
01:41help teachers
01:42the internet connection
01:44we'll be able to actually
01:46create real reform.
01:48for me.
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