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Blanks in 2025 budget only for final computation – Quimbo

  • The 2025 National Budget, known as the General Appropriations Act, is complete and lawful according to Marikina City 2nd District Representative Stella Quimbo.
  • Two congresspersons confirmed there were blanks in the bicameral conference committee report on the budget, which was first flagged by Representative Isidro Ungab.
  • Budget experts warned that blanks in the bicameral report could set a bad precedent and called for open-door deliberations in the future.
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The Manila TimesThe Manila Times

Quimbo says 2025 natl budget lawful

THE 2025 national budget law is "lawful, valid and fully enforceable," the acting chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations said. Marikina 2nd District Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo defended the budget law or the General Appropriations Act (GAA) in a statement she issued on Monday in response to criticisms that it had serious discrepancies. Quimbo said the enrolled General Appropriations Bill (GAB) was complete and had "no blank allocations amo…

·Manila, Philippines
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InquirerInquirer

Blanks in 2025 budget only for final computation – Quimbo

MANILA, Philippines — Marikina 2nd District Rep. Stella Quimbo has clarified that the blanks in the bicameral conference committee report on the 2025 national budget were only for the final computation of the amendments. In an ambush interview on Monday afternoon, Quimbo reiterated that the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) was legal as the allocations on the then-proposed budget were already decided by the bicam before the House of Represen…

·Manila, Philippines
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Philstar GlobalPhilstar Global

House panel: 'Blank' items in 2025 budget just typos

The House appropriations panel has acknowledged the alleged blank line items in its bicameral conference committee report on the 2025 national budget, calling some “typographical errors.”

·Manila, Philippines
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2025 budget lawful, valid; all amounts in bicam report ‘determined’ before signing: Quimbo

House Committee on Appropriations Acting Chairperson Rep. Stella Quimbo has finally spoken on the alleged issues in the 2025 national budget and asserted that i

·Quezon City, Philippines
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RapplerRappler

Admin allies try to wiggle out of budget brouhaha: Technical staff do final fixes

There are no unfilled items in this year’s budget known as the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA), but there appeared to be blanks in one crucial document that preceded it — the bicameral conference committee report. How to explain the blanks in the bicam report that contained the final amendments of the legislative? An emerging explanation from allies of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is this: the signed report went to the lawmakers’ technic…

·Philippines
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Manila BulletinManila Bulletin

Quimbo finally addresses 'blank budget' claim, calls 2025 GAA 'complete, lawful'

Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)       The P6.352-trillion General Appropriations Act (GAA) or national budget for 2025 is complete and lawful, House Committee on Appropriations Senior Vice Chairperson Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo said.Quimbo had this to say Monday, Jan. 27 even as he took a dig at certain personalities for creating controversies out of thin air. "I am issuing thi…

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GMA Filipino News broke the news in Quezon City, Philippines on Monday, January 27, 2025.
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