2027 budget: Bicam urged to block congressional insertions

MANILA, Philippines — This year’s bicameral conference committee on the proposed P7.2-trillion national budget for 2027 should ensure “genuine transparency” and prevent congressional insertions into the spending plan, rather than repeat last year’s “performative” arrangement, ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio said Sunday. He noted that greater efforts for transparency are needed in this year’s joint

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