VP Sara Duterte, hindi dumalo sa budget hearing ng OVP sa Kamara; ilang kongresista, nagkasagutan | Unang Balita

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00:00Some congressmen responded to the budget hearing of the Office of the Vice President, which was not covered by VP Sara Duterte.

00:07At the same time, the OVP released a video where the Vice President said that only two congressmen have control over the national budget.

00:15We have the first news, Marisol Abdurrahman.

00:21You may not like the person, you may not like her presence here, but you have to respect the Office of the Vice President.

00:29Vice President Sara Duterte is not sure about the continuation of the deliverance of the camera in the budget of the Office of the Vice President.

00:37But as of the last hearing, the tension in the camera is high.

00:40The question of the party's representative, Rodante Marcoleta,

00:43Is the tradition of giving a courtesy OVP aside when it comes to the immediate approval of its budget?

00:50There should be no more questions.

00:52If what happened is a barrage of questions, that's why I'm asking,

00:55Why did we do that earlier? Are we not already respecting a tradition well-kept by the government?

01:02The hearing was even heated.

01:13When the hearing continued,

01:16Representative Marcoleta motioned to stop the budget hearing and pass the OVP budget.

01:22But the motion was lost.

01:24We will uphold the tradition if we will turn our responsibility to the people

01:30to approve and approve our budget.

01:35Aside from the absence of a speech, there was also no OVP staff who attended the hearing.

01:40The head of agency should be present.

01:43And I do not care even if she is the Vice President, Madam Chair.

01:47I will not allow that Congress will be insulted by the head of any agency.

01:54In the letter sent by VP Sara to House Speaker Martin Romualdez,

01:58he said that he will obey his budget to the House Appropriations Committee.

02:03It is said that all the documents are already in the committee regarding the budget they are asking for.

02:07Bratinella to the max.

02:09If you will not answer Madam, I have already asked you, I am now moving.

02:15Yes, yes, sorry.

02:18The COA and Budget Departments answered the questions of the Congressmen.

02:23Including the 53 million pesos expenses in the year of rent and use of 12 satellite offices

02:29that were built by the OVP in 2023.

02:32Including the OVP's expired and non-distributed relief goods and 65 million pesos of unliquidated funds.

02:40If not submitted within the time given with the OVP, we will address it or issue a notice of suspension.

02:51There is no guilt yet.

02:53Until and unless you are able to receive the reply, the answer, and the explanation of the office of the Vice President.

03:02That is correct.

03:03Have you received a copy?

03:08Of the reply?

03:09Yes.

03:10They have not yet replied.

03:12In the end, the termination of the hearing was deferred to the 2025 budget of the OVP.

03:17We are continuing to get the reply of Vice President Duterte, even to the issues that are being addressed to him.

03:22Along with the deliberation on the camera, a video of his response was released.

03:27Here, the House Speaker accused the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, Zal Dico.

03:32The budget of the Philippines is only held by two people.

03:37It is only held by Congressman Zal Dico and Congressman Martin Romualdez.

03:43In 2020, a 5 billion pesos budget was approved by the Department of Education for the construction of a classroom.

03:51I was surprised because there are members of the House who are asking.

03:58They are asking for the 5 billion, part of the 5 billion budget.

04:03How much is ours there?

04:06So I said, this cannot happen.

04:10Because what will happen is that the Department of Education will not be able to do our job of constructing a classroom.

04:19When he did not agree, the budget for the approved National Budget or General Appropriations Act was reduced to 15 billion pesos.

04:28That 10 billion is not controlled by the Department of Education.

04:34It is controlled by Congressman Zal Dico and Congressman Martin Romualdez.

04:41This year, the camera reduced the budget of 5 billion pesos for the classroom repairs of DepEd and added to the classroom construction.

04:51But according to the Vice President, the camera covered the list of where the classrooms will be built.

04:57I just added that to the confirmation that they got the budget of DepEd.

05:07And that is one of the reasons why I resigned from the Department of Education.

05:14I will not allow that in the next year, they will do the same thing and I will be responsible for what they are doing.

05:22We asked the office of Speaker Romualdez to make a statement, but they did not make a statement yet.

05:28On behalf of my representative, the Vice President said that Romualdez controlled the National Budget.

05:36They think that the people are not smart. We will answer that.

05:43First of all, the number of members of the appropriations is around 139.

05:48The vice chair is around 56. The congressman is 300.

05:53We have 24 senators. There are members of the bicameral conference committee.

05:59Almost 30 are attending.

06:03He also recommended the use of the confidential fund in 2022.

06:08Remember, it is the Congress that is wrong to use P73 million out of P125 million confidential funds that were used within 11 days.

06:24The Napolis Fund, which was used for 60 days, lost here.

06:31It was only used for 11 days.

06:34And now, are we still going to give him P2 billion for the poor?

06:42We will give this to the right agency.

06:46We will not allow them to use the P1 billion that we should be watching.

06:54We asked VP Sara about this.

06:57This is the first news. Marisol La Abduraman for GMA Integrated News.

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VP Sara Duterte, hindi dumalo sa budget hearing ng OVP sa Kamara; ilang kongresista, nagkasagutan | Unang Balita

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