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00:00President Bongbong Marcos called the former President Rodrigo Duterte a liar when he said that there are blancos in the 2025 national budget.
00:08According to the former Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, Atty. Salvador Panelo, Duterte just gave a legal opinion. Here is my first news.
00:18These are the blancos. They didn't pass the law with blanco.
00:29In this special episode of Basta Da Bowenyo, former President Rodrigo Duterte said that there are blancos in the 2025 national budget.
00:40This came from Davao Congressman Isidro Ungab, who was once the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
00:46According to Ungab, there are blancos in the 2025 national budget. Most of the blancos are in the Department of Agriculture.
00:57He also said that there are blancos in the unprogrammed appropriations.
01:00The BICAM report is the result of the different versions of the House and Senate of the national budget.
01:06The BICAM report is ratified by the House and Senate and will be submitted to the President to be signed.
01:11If the General Appropriations Bill of Gab is signed, it will become the General Appropriations Act or GAA.
01:17So the House and the Senate ratified a defective BICAM report. In other words, our GAA is affected.
01:26It's like the issue of the check of the blanco. What does it mean?
01:30They will put it, the secretary or the director?
01:34What kind of nonsense is that?
01:39That is forcification of law, perjury or whatever criminal action.
01:46You can all go to jail for that.
01:51This is the answer of President Bongbong Marcos.
01:53He's lying. He's a president. He knows that you cannot pass a GAA without a blanco. He's lying.
02:04He's lying because he knows perfectly well that that doesn't ever happen.
02:11To Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, the statements made by President Bongbong Marcos about the budget with blanco
02:19are called fake news. These statements are malicious and criminal.
02:24There is no part of the 2025 national budget that has not been blamed before it was signed by the President.
02:30In the history of the entire Philippines, it is not allowed to have an item, a GAA,
02:39that does not state what the project is and what the budget is.
02:48So it's a lie.
02:52According to the DBM, under the legal framework, the general appropriations below GAAB,
02:57and not the BICAM report, are submitted to the President to be signed or vetoed.
03:02The bill submitted to the President is a complete document.
03:05There is no blanco or no details.
03:08According to the former Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, Atty. Salvador Panelo,
03:12the former President issued a legal opinion.
03:15Panelo said, if the statements of UNGAB are true that the GAA was signed by the weak,
03:20those with responsibility may be jailed.
03:23UNGAB's question is, if there is a blanco item in the BICAM report based on the numbers in the General Appropriations Act,
03:30how was the GAA completed?
03:32Why did the members of BICAM sign its defective report?
03:36Why was it ratified by the Congress?
03:39And why was it signed by the President?
03:41It's possible that UNGAB joined the petitioners asking the Supreme Court
03:45to declare the 2025 budget invalid and unconstitutional.
03:50For now, the lawyers are preparing to file a complaint about this.
03:54According to Malacanang, they were convinced that the GAA was signed,
03:59but they cannot stop the Supreme Court from questioning it.
04:03This is the first news.
04:05Ivan Merina for GMA Integrated News.
04:20.