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00:00Controversy in the 2025 national budget is being brought to the Supreme Court.
00:05A congressman and a few groups are asking for the cancellation of the budget
00:10due to the illegal addition to the BICAM report after the ratification of the Congress.
00:16Meanwhile, Senate President Chester Escudero said that nothing was done wrong in the process.
00:22We have first news from Joseph Morong.
00:24A few groups are asking for the cancellation of the 2025 national budget
00:36due to the illegal addition to the BICAM report after the ratification of the Congress' legislative process.
00:51The BICAM report was ratified by both sides of the Congress.
00:58For me, this is uncharted waters because you can only have a reenacted budget if there's no approved budget.
01:07If there's an approved budget, it will be declared invalid.
01:11The Congress will be in a hurry to pass the budget again.
01:15It's possible because an error in legislation can be corrected only with another legislation.
01:24It's really a big problem.
01:25The President refused to cancel the BICAM.
01:27He signed the General Appropriations Act.
01:29This is the law that will pass the budget of the government for this year.
01:33But Ungab said it's right that the BICAM is not included in the enrolled bill.
01:37This is the copy that was removed from the BICAM report that was ratified by the Congress and signed by the President.
01:43The problem is, the ratification of the Congress is the BICAM report that has blanks that are already included in the enrolled bill.
01:50This is wrong and illegal because whatever was added to the enrolled bill, it didn't pass the ratification.
01:57Who's the magician? Someone did magic.
01:59The seeing it after, that's not it. That's not ratified.
02:03Ungab showed in the GMA Integrated News the e-mail of the House Secretary and a copy of the BICAMERAL conference report
02:10to more than 300 congressmen last Saturday night of December 11.
02:15Around 7 p.m. last night, the House of Representatives ratified the BICAM report of the 2025 budget.
02:21The same document.
02:22Why was it ratified? It was ratified because no one saw it.
02:28Senator Amy Marcos was the first to say that there are blanks in the BICAM report,
02:33that's why she didn't sign it.
02:35She was surprised.
02:37I was shocked and I didn't know what to do because I was afraid of the blanks and the lack of data.
02:46There are two different documents that they're referring to.
02:49One is the BICAM report that is really blank and has a lack of data.
02:54The other one, the GAA, is already full of numbers. It's already complete.
03:00It's not just blanks. The GAA itself was signed.
03:04I was surprised that the BICAM report was full of blanks.
03:12Did you see the BICAM report?
03:14Of course.
03:15It's not there anymore?
03:16It's not there anymore because it was signed.
03:20The Congress ratified the budget in December 11.
03:24On December 20, it was submitted to President Bongbong Marcos.
03:28On December 30, the President signed the national budget.
03:32Under the study of the GMA Integrated News Research,
03:35the value of the blanks in the BICAM report is not less than Php138.36 billion.
03:44Php110 billion is for the programs of the Department of Agriculture
03:49and the rest are subsidies for government corporations.
03:52There's nothing wrong with the process of the budget of Senate President Francis Chiza Escudero.
03:57This is the first copy that I signed.
04:00The Committee on Appropriation and Finance was authorized to correct and fill it.
04:06It was also stated in the last paragraph of the BICAM report.
04:10If there is a difference in the GAA in the BICAM report,
04:16the next will be the GAA, the enrolled bill of the GAA.
04:21According to our Supreme Court,
04:23in the long and many decisions, the next will be the enrolled bill.
04:28The signed version of the law will govern.
04:32Now, if there is a lack there, it is only right to question it.
04:36Or, if there is a release because the blanks were filled afterwards,
04:40it is only right not to release it and not to allow it to be released.
04:43The congressman knows that.
04:45The congressman is complaining and raising points related to this matter.
04:50Escudero thinks...
04:51The election is near.
04:53The color of politics is too bright for now.
04:56And maybe in the next few days,
04:58let's not be surprised by additional stories, attacks, or incidents like this.
05:05We are still waiting for the statement of House Speaker Martin Romualdez.
05:09This is the first news.
05:11Joseph Morong for GMA Integrated News.