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00:00According to former President Rodrigo Duterte and Double City Congressman Isidro Ungap, the 6.326 trillion budget of the government in 2025 should not be implemented.
00:14Their basis is that they are holding a copy of the BICAM report where there are blank pages on some pages.
00:21We have first news, Jonathan Andal.
00:24After President Bongbong Marcos signed the 6.3 trillion Pesos 2025 National Budget on December 30,
00:36former President Rodrigo Duterte emphasized that he is wrong with the country's budget based on what he says is a copy of the BICAM report that he is holding.
00:46These are my blank pages.
00:50I didn't pass the low-end blanks.
00:53He said this in a special episode of the podcast called Basta Dabawenyo, which was uploaded to the YouTube channel of his son, Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte.
01:02Former President Isidro Ungap is also here with us, the third district of Davao City,
01:08who became the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee under the administration of Duterte and Binigno Aquino III.
01:14Ungap was the one who noticed the 13 pages in the BICAM report of the 2025 budget that has blanks or blanks in the amount of the alleged fund,
01:24such as the fund of the National Irrigation Administration, or NIA, and the Philippine Coconut Authority, or PCA.
01:30Most of the blanks are in the fund of the Department of Agriculture, such as the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, or BIFAR,
01:39small-scale irrigation projects, and agricultural machines equipment and facilities.
01:46There are also blanks in the unprogrammed appropriations.
01:49This is the first time that I saw a BICAM Rural Conference Committee report that has blanks.
01:56I was shocked.
01:57We can see that the BICAM report is defective.
02:01Why was it signed by members?
02:05So the House and the Senate ratified a defective BICAM report.
02:11In other words, our funds are affected.
02:15It's like the issue of the check and the blanks.
02:17What does that mean?
02:20Are they the ones who will put it, the secretary or the director?
02:24What kind of nonsense is that?
02:29Because of that, Duterte said, the 2025 national budget has no visa, so it should not be implemented.
02:37I would like to remind Congress, that's wrong.
02:44It's invalid.
02:46Please correct it.
02:49Or recall the budget and demand an explanation as to why it came to you as a blank.
03:03That is falsification of law.
03:06Perjury or whatever, it's a criminal action.
03:12You can all go to jail for that.
03:15If I were to ask, it should be brought to the Supreme Court because the President has already signed it.
03:22It is possible that Ungab will join the petitioners who are asking the Supreme Court to declare the 2025 budget invalid and unconstitutional.
03:32For now, the lawyers are preparing one more complaint about this.
03:36The Malacanang and the Senate and House of Representatives leaders have listened to the reaction of JMI Integrated News
03:42to confirm if the copy that Duterte is holding is the one that was read and signed by the President.
03:47But they still have no answer.
03:49It is clear that the signing of the National Budget by President Marcos was delayed because it is said that a thorough review is needed.
03:56In the signed National Budget, the President did not approve the 26 billion in DPWH and 186 billion in Unprogrammed Appropriations
04:07because it is not in line with the priority programs of his administration.
04:12Here's the first news. Jonathan Andal for GMA Integrated News.
04:18While the former President Rodrigo Duterte and Davao City Congressman Isidro Ungab
04:26said that the 2025 National Budget is a blank slate,
04:31Geber Samin said that it is a malicious distribution of fake news.
04:35Meanwhile, each page of the 2025 National Budget was rejected before President Bongbong Marcos signed it.
04:43You can see the approved version of the 2025 General Appropriations Act on the website of the Department of Budget and Management.
04:50There is no program, activity or project that left the budget blank.
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