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00:00Sen. Grace Poe was convicted in the process of passing the 2025 national budget.
00:08Poe is the chairperson of the Senate Finance Committee that is in charge of the study and defense of the budget.
00:14We have first news, Joseph Moro.
00:19As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Grace Poe is in charge of the study and defense of the 2025 national budget.
00:27Poe was convicted in the process of passing the 2025 national budget.
00:33Despite the statement of several judges, including Sen. Davao City 3rd Dist. Rep. Isidro Ungab,
00:39Kabataan Party List Rep. Raul Manuel, and Sen. Aimee Marcos,
00:44the Bicameral Conference Committee report was ratified with blank provisions.
00:49In terms of stages, from the Bicam report, which is blank, and then the enrolled bill with figures, who did that?
00:58In the enrolled bill, that is the most important thing in the Bicam.
01:03There is no blank there, and all the totals have already been verified.
01:08In fact, when it was enrolled, there was no blank.
01:11Senator Chisholm really said the right thing, which should really be referenced.
01:16In fact, also the President has seen that we don't have blanks in our enrolled bill.
01:22Marikina Rep. Stella Kimbo is the vice chairperson of the House Appropriations Committee
01:27in the 2025 budget and acting chairman.
01:30We tried to ask her about the issue.
01:33Between the Bicam and then the enrolled, at what point did the figures come in?
01:41Why didn't you answer? If it's just a procedural thing for Congress.
01:45Everything has already been answered.
01:46How, ma'am?
01:48Everything has already been explained.
01:50Huh?
01:51Everything has already been explained.
01:52Who?
01:53SP. Everything has already been explained.
01:55But the issue is the Bicam.
01:57There are copies of the Bicam report obtained by GMA Integrated News from Unga Batmanuel.
02:02We also obtained a copy from an unnamed source in the Senate.
02:05Although there are differences in the number and position of the signatures, the blanks are the same.
02:11The Bicam report was ratified by the Congress to be the basis of the enrolled bill
02:16and to be signed by the President as the General Appropriations Act or 2025 National Budget.
02:21But if we compare it to a law, the General Appropriations Act, the blanks in the Bicam report
02:26have a total amount of P138.36 billion.
02:32That's the largest budget for NIA, the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Program.
02:37This is a blank in the Bicam report, but it has a total amount of P56.4 billion.
02:42According to GMA, the blanks in the enrolled bill were already removed after they ratified the Bicam report.
02:49So they asked, who did this?
02:52From Bicam, who drafted it? Senate or Congress for the enrolled bill?
02:56Both. There is a technical working group that actually consolidates both the reports of the House and the Senate.
03:05When we have completed the Bicam report and we submitted it as an enrolled bill, it was complete.
03:11Thank you. It's complete.
03:13Senate President Jesus Codero said that there is a provision in the Bicam report
03:18that if there is a difference between the Bicam report and the enrolled bill, the enrolled bill will be followed.
03:23Some groups are already preparing to question the Supreme Court the legality of the 2025 National Budget.
03:30This is the first news. Joseph Morong for GMA Integrated News.
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