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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his economic managers review the 2025 national budget. Photo from MPC

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Marcos ‘thoroughly reviewing’ 2025 budget ‘to conform to Constitution’

Pia Gutierrez

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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/17351803090951734926317911viber_image_2024-12-23_11-13-42-417.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his economic managers review the 2025 national budget. Photo from MPC"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his economic managers review the 2025 national budget. <em>Photo from MPC</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his Cabinet are “thoroughly reviewing” the provisions of the proposed 2025 budget “to make them conform to the Constitution”, Malacanang said Wednesday.</p><p>The review comes as the proposed P6.352-trillion spending plan was fraught with controversy after the Bicameral Conference Committee approved cuts in the budgets of some agencies including the Department of Education and removed government subsidy for state insurer PhilHealth.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/12/15/wrap-cuts-to-deped-philhealth-as-2025-budget-bill-nears-finish-line-2124">WRAP: Cuts to DepEd, PhilHealth as 2025 budget bill nears finish line</a></div><p>“The President and the Cabinet are RIGHT NOW (with or without the calls) thoroughly reviewing the various items of the GAA (General Appropriations Act) to make them conform to the Constitution, and to see to it that the budget prioritizes the main legacy thrusts of the Administration,” Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said in a statement.</p><p>Bersamin said that the President “has been most prudent in programming and spending of the government’s limited fiscal resources.”</p><p>The General Appropriations Bill was initially scheduled to be signed into law last December 20, but was deferred to allow an exhaustive review of the budget following criticisms over several provisions of the spending plan.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/12/16/philhealth-assures-continued-services-despite-loss-of-2025-government-subsidy-2237">PhilHealth assures continued services despite loss of 2025 government subsidy</a></div><script data-wid="auto" type="text/javascript" src="https://content.viralize.tv/display/?zid=AAEyze-tm4MR6kEa&amp;cid=ABSBMLBsYVygOzUE&amp;activation=adfill&amp;vip_mode=no"></script>

<p>President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his Cabinet are “thoroughly reviewing” the provisions of the proposed 2025 budget “to make them conform to the Constitution”, Malacanang said Wednesday.</p>

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his Cabinet are “thoroughly reviewing” the provisions of the proposed 2025 budget “to make them conform to the Constitution”, Malacanang said Wednesday.

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Marcos ‘thoroughly reviewing’ 2025 budget ‘to conform to Constitution’: Palace

Pia Gutierrez,

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Published December 26, 2024 10:41 AM PHT

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