House panel slashes proposed 2025 budget of Sara Duterte’s OVP by P1.3 billion
The House appropriations committee recommends reducing the proposed 2025 budget of the Office of the Vice President to P733 million from the original request of P2 billion.
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00:00The House Appropriations Committee recommends reducing the proposed 2025 budget of the Office
00:06of the Vice President to Php 733 million from the original request of Php 2 billion.
00:12The panel's Senior Vice Chairperson Stella Quimbo says Thursday, September 12, the slashed
00:17Php 1.3 billion will be realigned to projects of the Social Welfare and Development and
00:22Health Departments.
00:23The decision is not yet final and will be subject to the approval of the plenary, which
00:27starts next week.
00:29The move comes after Duterte and the entire OVP snubbed the second round of committee-level
00:33budget deliberations.
00:35Duterte claimed she is being politically harassed by the House, which is led by President Ferdinand
00:40Marx Jr.'s cousin, Speaker Martin Romualdez.