All is not lost as President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. still has the power to ask the bicameral conference committee to reconvene and fix all the contentious items in the final version of the P6.532 trillion national budget for 2025, Sen. Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said.
Hannah L. TorregozaZubiri pointed this out in an interview on Monday, December 16 expressing his belief that indeed the President can remedy the questionable increases and decreases in some of the agencies’ budgets for next year that has been approved and ratified by the Senate and House of Representatives last week.The President also has the power to exercise line-item veto in the General Appropriations Bill , he stressed.
“That’s why all is not lost until the President can possibly remedy it through some veto provisions. So let’s see what the President will do. But what’s important is, education should be the top priority based on our Constitution, especially when crafting the national budget,” he said.Zubiri also reminded his colleagues that the Senate should remain independent as it is the last bastion, “not only of democracy, but also the last bastion of institutional amendments.
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