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Sen. Grace Poe. Voltaire F. Domingo, Senate PRIB

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RG Cruz

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172733169483720230412-ph-senate-grace-poe-SPRIB648.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Sen. Grace Poe. <em>Voltaire F. Domingo, Senate PRIB</em></span><em> </em></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA — Senate Finance Committee Chair Grace Poe said she expected the transmittal of the House-approved General Appropriations Bill or the 2025 national budget by October 25. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;Based on the schedule agreed with the House, the transmittal of the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) is on October 25. We are actually ahead of schedule with hearings,&quot; Poe told ABS-CBN News after the House approved next year&#x27;s budget on Wednesday night.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Assuming all the vice chairs will submit their committee reports on time, I will be ready to sponsor by then. The hearings in the Senate will continue until October 18. Only after that and the transmittal of the GAB can we start drafting the committee report in the Senate,&quot; she added.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/12/senators-to-consider-merits-not-agency-head-in-deciding-2025-budget-poe-2239">Senators to consider merits, not agency head, in deciding 2025 budget: Poe</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Senate President Francis Escudero said Poe would determine the schedule once the budget bill is transmitted and would present that schedule in an all-member caucus.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Congress is in recess and will resume its plenary sessions on November 4.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meanwhile, Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri rejected calls by some congressmen for Vice President Sara Duterte to resign after she skipped the House of Representatives deliberations on her 2025 office budget. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;Hindi naman tama siguro yan. I think that&#x27;s her prerogative, she was elected by 31 million Filipinos. As she said, she will respect the decision of Congress on her budget. We leave it at that,&quot; Zubiri told the Kapihan sa Senado.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/25/-hindi-ako-aalis-dito-sara-duterte-rejects-resignation-calls-from-lawmakers-1543">&#x27;Hindi ako aalis dito&#x27;: Sara Duterte rejects resignation calls from lawmakers</a><br/><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/24/vp-duterte-can-step-down-if-she-is-no-longer-interested-in-performing-her-duties-solon-1841">VP Duterte can step down if she is no longer interested in performing her duties: solon</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;I think the appetite though among the Senators is to increase her budget a bit sa usap-usapan sa lounge,&quot; he added. &quot;The appetite of the Senators ha, I&#x27;m not saying me, I&#x27;m saying the discussions on the lounge is to increase ng kaunti yung budget ng OVP.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;Iyung 700M na inapprove ng House darating sa amin yan 700M eh, 700M so yung appetite ng ibang senador dito sa Senado is dagdagan pa ng konti,&quot; he said.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Many senators who attended the OVP budget hearing backed the approval of the budget in full, even after Duterte’s heated exchange with Sen. Risa Hontiveros on her budget.  </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/4/marcos-refutes-vp-duterte-no-politics-in-ovp-budget-hearings-1534">Marcos refutes VP Duterte: &#x27;No politics&#x27; in OVP budget hearings</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duterte accused Hontiveros of politicizing her budget and claimed congressmen were making a case for her impeachment. </span></div><div><br/><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/20/-i-don-t-appreciate-the-attitude-sara-duterte-risa-hontiveros-in-heated-exchange-1530">&#x27;I don&#x27;t appreciate the attitude&#x27;: Sara Duterte, Risa Hontiveros in heated exchange</a></div>

<p>Senate Finance Committee Chair Grace Poe said she expected the transmittal of the House-approved General Appropriations Bill or the 2025 national budget by October 25.</p>

Senate Finance Committee Chair Grace Poe said she expected the transmittal of the House-approved General Appropriations Bill or the 2025 national budget by October 25.

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