House Appropriations Committee acting chairperson Stella Quimbo confirmed the presence of blank items in the bicameral report on the 2025 national budget, totaling P6.325 trillion. However, she assured that funding for these items had already been designated before the report's signing. Quimbo stated that the technical staff from both the House and Senate were authorized to make corrections, which she classified as 'ministerial' or 'calculator activities.' She emphasized that all decisions regarding budget allocations were made by bicameral committee members during the signing process.
House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations acting chairperson Stella Quimbo on Monday confirmed that there were blank items in the bicameral report on the P6.325 trillion national budget for 2025. But she quickly added that funding for these items had been identified before the signing of the report.
According to the omnibus motion in the bicam report, the technical staff of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance are “authorized to effect corrections of typographical, grammatical and printing errors, as well as necessary adjustments such as performance indicators and section number of general and special provisions as a consequence of the amendments.
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