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00:00Some Senators refused to sign the BICAM Report of the 2025 National Budget
00:05saying that they saw blanks in the documents they signed.
00:09A congressman showed the copy of the BICAM to the GMA Integrated News
00:14which was ratified by the Camera even though there were blanks.
00:17Witness, Jonathan Andar.
00:23The GMA Integrated News obtained a copy of the BICAM Report of the 2025 National Budget
00:29from Congressman Raul Manuel of Kabataan Partylist.
00:32Witness, this is a violation of the blanks that were signed
00:36in the documents issued by Congressman Isidro Ungab and former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:40Manuel said that this BICAM Report with blanks was also ratified by the Congress.
00:47Witness, the BICAM Report was given to all congressmen last December
00:52before it was sent to the plenary for ratification.
00:55But the problem is that it was just named as a soft copy.
00:58It took less than a week for it to be ratified.
01:01While the printed copy was given less than an hour before it was sent to the plenary.
01:07That's why it wasn't ratified properly.
01:09It took a lot of time to ratify it.
01:15There was an end to it, to be honest.
01:17We didn't see the blanks right away because we're not used to that.
01:23I just encountered that the budget was ratified.
01:28There are still blanks.
01:29According to GMA Integrated News,
01:31this page, for example, of the document held by Ungab,
01:35has the same blanks as the document held by Manuel.
01:38But it turns out that there are more signatures in the document from Manuel
01:43and some of them are in different places.
01:45GMA Integrated News is trying to get an official copy of the BICAM Report from the camera.
01:51In the process of passing the budget after the BICAM Report is ratified,
01:55this will be the basis of the General Appropriations Bill or GAB
01:59that will be submitted to the President.
02:00By the time the President signs it for it to be passed,
02:03this is what is called the GAA or General Appropriations Act.
02:07Manuel's question is,
02:08Along with the BICAM Report that was ratified by the camera,
02:13are the blanks.
02:14After ratification and before signing,
02:18who filled in the blanks?
02:21So it should not be answered there.
02:22Only the BICAM and the President can answer.
02:29Even the President's brother, Senator Aimee Marcos,
02:32said in December that she will not sign the BICAM Report
02:35because it is a blank paper.
02:38I assure the people that I will never sign any paper
02:44up to the budget of 2025 or the BICAM Report
02:49that will help reduce the money in legitimate projects.
02:53How can I sign a blank paper?
02:56The media tried to get a new comment earlier from Senator Aimee,
03:00but it ran away.
03:01Senator Wynne Gadshalian and Joel Villanueva said
03:04that they are members of the BICAM and signed the BICAM Report.
03:07In my team, we did not see a blank paper
03:10because it should be balanced.
03:11That's what we're always looking at.
03:13So I have a whole team that is looking at the budget
03:17before signing it.
03:18I did not see a blank paper whatsoever.
03:23But I also did not close the rumors that we heard
03:32that there are some items that are not signed yet.
03:35Senate President Cheese Escudero and Senate Finance Committee Chair Grace Poe
03:38did not want to comment.
03:40In the House of Representatives, Speaker Martin Romualdez
03:44and former House Appropriations Committee Chair Zaldico
03:47were the first to say that Duterte is lying
03:51because there is no blank paper in his General Appropriations Act.
03:55For GMA Integrated News, I'm Jonathan Andal.
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