ICYMI. The P1.408 billion represents a 58% increase from the P893.87 million the Office of the President asked for “local/foreign missions and state visits” in the proposed 2023 budget.
MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is asking Congress to allocate P1.408 billion for local and foreign missions, as well as state visits, for 2024.
The P1.408 billion represents a 58% increase from the P893.87 million the Office of the President asked for “local/foreign missions and state visits” in the proposed 2023 budget. In 2022, or the last budget prepared under Marcos’ predecessor Rodrigo Duterte, the OP asked for P536.48 million for the same purpose.In the proposed 2024 budget, the Office of the President is asking for a total of P10.6 billion. An additional P62.3 million would go to Malacañang from automatic appropriations.
Allocations for “management of special events and internal house affairs,” as well as “process and management documents for the President” are also up in 2024. For the “management of special events and internal house affairs,” Marcos is asking for P293.67 million in 2024, up from P264.372 million in 2023.
In just over a year in Malacañang, Marcos has attended the United Nations General Assembly general debate in New York, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summits in Cambodia and Indonesia, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Thailand, the ASEAN-European Union Summit in Brussels, and the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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