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The DBM turns over the 2026 National Expenditure Program to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the Malacanang, August 12, 2025. Handout/PCO

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NEP 2026

RG Cruz

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1755830376574cropped-Screen Shot 2025-08-22 at 10.38.15 AM (1).png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">The DBM turns over the 2026 National Expenditure Program to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the Malacanang, August 12, 2025. Handout/PCO</span></span></span></div><p style="text-align:left">MANILA — Sen. Panfilo Lacson has proposed an unusual practice for the country&#x27;s spending plan for 2026: adopt the executive&#x27;s National Expenditure Program (NEP) in full. </p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/13/dbm-transmits-2026-national-expenditure-program-to-congress-1058">DBM transmits proposed P6.79-T budget for 2026 to Congress</a></div><p>&quot;For a change, why not have the Senate adopt the NEP so that if there will be problems in implementing projects in 2026, it will be on the executive department,&quot; he said in Filipino in a radio interview Thursday.</p><p>Lacson proposed the &quot;experiment&quot; for just one year in a bid to prevent a repeat of the alleged corruption in the insertions and realignments of the 2025 budget.</p><p>&quot;At least if it&#x27;s the NEP, I&#x27;m sure the items in it were studied carefully by the implementing agencies concerned,&quot; he added.</p><p>Lacson said he was considering moving to adopt the NEP at the briefing of the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) ay the Senate.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/18/-we-will-scrutinize-house-of-representatives-kicks-off-2026-budget-deliberation-1201">&#x27;We will scrutinize&#x27;: House of Representatives kicks off 2026 budget deliberation</a></div><p>Lacson noted that the Senate and House of Representatives can both adopt the NEP, then guard the implementation of the projects.</p><p>&quot;This will be a one-year experiment. If it fails, we go back to the realignment,&quot; he added.</p><p>The Marcos administration is proposing a P6.79-trillion budget for next year.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qIVBNsqB6z4?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>"At least if it's the NEP, I'm sure the items in it were studied carefully by the implementing agencies concerned," Sen. Ping Lacson said.</p>

"At least if it's the NEP, I'm sure the items in it were studied carefully by the implementing agencies concerned," Sen. Ping Lacson said.

Lacson suggests adopting admin's 2026 proposed budget in full as 'experiment'

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Lacson suggests adopting admin's 2026 proposed budget in full as 'experiment'

RG Cruz,

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Published August 22, 2025 10:42 AM PHT

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