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Lacson: SC Ruling on 2024, 2025 Budgets Timely as Senate Scrutinizes House Version of 2027 Budget Bill

The Supreme Court ruling declaring certain provisions of the 2024 and 2025 national budgets unconstitutional comes at an opportune time, as the Senate scrutinizes the House version of the 2027 budget bill, Sen. Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson said.

Lacson said the High Court’s ruling underscored the constitutional limits on Congress’ power to alter the National Expenditure Program (NEP).

In Filipino: Lacson: SC Ruling sa 2024, 2025 Budgets Napapanahon Habang Sinusuri ng Senado ang House Version ng 2027 Budget Bill

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Making Noise on the 2025 Budget Makes Sense After All

If there is one amendment in the 2025 GAA that is worth mentioning, Congress has rectified a legally flawed provision under the 2024 GAA by deleting Special Provision (d) under the Unprogrammed Appropriations which allowed the executive branch to realign “excess PhilHealth funds” to the National Treasury.

This bars the Department of Finance from gobbling up PhilHealth funds in 2025. This may have also rendered the pending SC petitions on this particular issue moot and academic.

Making noise makes sense after all.

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Editorial: Walking dead pork [Tribune]

From Daily Tribune: While the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the Priority Development Assistance Fund and similar discretionary lump sums in the budget that gave legislators authority to implement government projects were illegal, the pork barrel has been resurrected in different forms over the years.

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Editorial: Undying hunger for pork [Tribune]
Ping Lacson is an avowed enemy of the pork barrel system and other forms of wrongdoing.

From Daily Tribune: “It is not the obligation of congressmen and senators to distribute these subsidy programs. (The) mandate of Congress in the budget process is to authorize and legislate and not to implement,” said former Senator Ping Lacson, who was known as a budget watchdog.

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The 3rd chamber [Philippine Star]

From Ana Marie Pamintuan‘s column in The Philippine Star: Lacson, who unlike some lawmakers reads the fine print before affixing his signature to the budget measure, describes the bicameral conference as “the third chamber of Congress” where budgeting “miracles” happen.

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