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00:00Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said that it's not the Executive but the Congress that should explain the actions of the Umanoy-Blanco in the BICAM report of the 2025 National Budget.

00:12Watch this, Van Myrina.

00:14We will watch this.

00:19This was the answer of Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin amidst the controversy about the Umanoy-Blanco in the Bicameral Conference Committee report of the 2025 National Budget.

00:28Bersamin said that it's the Congress and not the Executive that should explain the actions of the Umanoy-Blanco in the Bicameral Conference Committee report of the 2025 National Budget.

00:32There is a lack in that because it's a Bicam report. We have nothing to do with the Bicam report.

00:40We only have to do with the finished product that was signed by the President, not the blank check.

00:49The so-called Bicam report ratified by the Congress is based on the General Appropriations Bill and passed by the President,

00:57which is in the law as the 2025 General Appropriations Act or the National Budget.

01:02Budget Secretary Amena Pangandaman said that the Umanoy-Blanco is not included in their copy of the General Appropriations Bill.

01:10So the so-called Umanoy-Blanco is also included in the Bicam report.

01:20If it's true that there are Umanoy-Blanco in the Bicam report that was signed by the President after it was ratified,

01:26this is wrong, said Professor Dan Gatmaitan of the University of the Philippines College of Law, which teaches constitutional law.

01:33He said that after the ratification, nothing should be added or subtracted,

01:38and that the Bicam report should be included in the enrolled bill that was signed by the President.

01:43After the Bicam, the insertions and appropriations are done.

01:48You can't change that.

01:50What can be done is typos and forms to make it consistent.

01:54But adding value to the blank appropriations, that cannot be done.

02:00That should be the consensus of both houses.

02:04The opponents of the Bicam report said that they are going to sue the Supreme Court.

02:08That's why there was an argument to stop the implementation of the 2025 budget.

02:13But Bersamin believes that sometimes the Supreme Court serves as the chief justice and this will not happen.

02:18I cannot understand if the Supreme Court will have that tendency to put a stop to it,

02:25even if any of those challengers will ask for a TRO.

02:30Because the government must function, must be run.

02:33Now, they will say that there is a fallback on the re-enacted budget.

02:38But the re-enacted budget can come only when there is a finding that it has been vetoed

02:44or the Supreme Court has nullified the present budget.

02:50That is yet to be in the end of the year

02:53or maybe when this resolution of these challenges will have been delivered.

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