The outrage over the bicameral conference committee’s huge cuts on the 2025 budgets for education and health, while padding those for public works and for a controversial doleout fund to be dispensed by lawmakers, can still be remedied by presidential intervention. Former senator Panfilo M.
The outrage over the bicameral conference committee’s huge cuts on the 2025 budgets for education and health, while padding those for public works and for a controversial doleout fund to be dispensed by lawmakers, can still be remedied by presidential intervention.
He was referring to what he called the “blatant” violation of the constitutional mandate to allot to education the biggest slice of the national budget. In a statement, he said, “Only the President can save the Constitution from becoming wastebasket-bound by exercising his line item veto power once the Enrolled Bill lands on his desk.”
The cuts, stressed Cayetano, “hit directly at the millions of Filipinos who are already struggling to keep their families healthy, and to send their children to school.”
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