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Speaker Dy has pledged to "scrutinize every centavo" of the ₱7.2-trillion national budget. Congress's own ₱27.89-billion slice cleared the floor on Sept. 17 with zero interpellation — because, lawmakers said, there was no one left in the chamber to ask.
Sandiganbayan-vetted medical findings call the ₱7.44-billion plunder defendant "clinically stable" for detention, more than a week after his arrest in the flood-control kickback scandal.
Speaker Dy pledges to "scrutinize every centavo" as lawmakers push the ₱644-billion DPWH infrastructure budget — including a reduced ₱107.4-billion flood-control allocation — toward an Oct. 9 third-reading target.
Rep. Antonio Tinio says DOLE's ballooning Tupad emergency-jobs fund — potentially climbing to ₱24.5 billion in 2027 — is turning the labor department into an "aid-distributing agency" at the expense of its core worker-protection mandate.
The House appropriations committee began a 53-day review of the proposed 2027 national budget with a Development Budget Coordination Committee briefing, as leadership pledges transparency and the Senate faces questions over an alleged per-senator "leadership fund" in the DPWH budget raised in Sandiganbayan testimony.
House Majority Leader Sandro Marcos says associates of then-President Rodrigo Duterte sought the power to choose the incoming executive secretary, House speaker, and Senate president in exchange for endorsing his father's 2022 presidential bid — a claim Malacañang defended on Aug. 10 as the UniTeam alliance's collapse continues to reverberate.
Faustino Dy III says the chamber will build on last year's transparency reforms as the Marcos administration prepares to transmit the National Expenditure Program to Congress before the August 14 constitutional deadline, even as the government's own budget agency warns of "very narrow fiscal space."
With President Marcos set to deliver his penultimate State of the Nation Address on July 27, Malacañang and the House say the program will skip celebrity performers this year, even as police mount one of the largest security operations of his term and multiple groups apply for rally permits.
Reps. Cristy Angeles and Jojo Ang are under preliminary investigation for possible violation of the Anti-Graft Law over alleged links to contractors that won hundreds of public-works projects between 2016 and 2024.
Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong, sponsor of House Bill 8389, insisted the chamber's anti-political dynasty measure is a "positive development" that breaks a family's monopoly of power in a locality — but business and civil society groups counter that the bill lets relatives beyond the second degree hold office across every level of government simultaneously and permits unlimited succession and position-switching.
