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“He’s lying.”This was the response of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on the allegations made by his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte , that there were discrepancies in the 2025 national budget.Marcos said Duterte, as former president, should know that this could not happen.Malacañang on Monday also denounced the allegations made by Duterte, saying that the allegations made should be dismissed as ''criminal.
No page of the 2025 National Budget was left unturned before the president signed it into law,'' he added.GMA News Online contacted the Duterte camp, in particular, former chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo, to get their comment on the matter.Bersamin stressed that all of the 4,057 pages of the P6.326-trillion budget's two thick volumes were exhaustively reviewed by hundreds of professional staff from Congress and the Department of Budget and Management.
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