Antonio Tinio

MANILA, Philippines — Lawmakers on Monday welcomed the filing of a plunder case and the issuance of an arrest warrant against former Speaker Martin Romualdez, but warned that the flood control corruption probe should not end with him. Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers party-list Rep.

MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the President’s proposed budget for 2027 worth more than P10.15 billion passed the deliberations of the Committee on Appropriations in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, September 1. With 37 affirmative votes and five negative votes, the committee approved the P10,155,758,000 proposed budget within the first 25 minutes of the deliberations after lawmakers extended “institutional and interbranch courtesy” to the Office of the President.

MANILA, Philippines — A “pattern of padding” is evident in certain items in the National Expenditure Program (NEP), meant possibly to provide “fiscal space” for later budget insertions under a substantially reduced figure in the General Appropriations Act (GAA), according to ACT Teachers party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio. “We have noticed a pattern, or I should say a modus, of padding under the NEP – padding of certain items.