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Even though she voted against the bicameral conference committee report on the 2025 national budget, Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros said Wednesday she does not believe that Congress would approve it if it had blank entries.
Ungab said there were missing budget amounts for items under the Department of Agriculture and unprogrammed appropriations, emphasizing that the blanks could not be considered typographical, grammatical, or printing errors.Duterte, meanwhile, said the budget items should not be left empty to be filled up later on. According to the former president, anyone who tampered with the budget could face criminal prosecution.President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
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