Malacanang, pinabulaanan pahayag ni dating Pangulong Duterte ukol 2025 budget: “Fake news”
- Malacañang Palace, through an official statement issued by Secretary Lucas Bersamin, denounced the “fake news” being peddled by some quarters including former president Rodrigo Duterte
- The Executive Secretary, in the statement called said “fake news” as “outrightly malicious and should be condemned as criminal”
- He then said that the 2025 National Budget was thoroughly examined page by page before President Ferdinand Marcos signed it into law
- ES Bersamin also said that “the former president and his cohorts should know better” that the national budget papers “could not contain blank items”
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Malacañang Palace, through an official statement issued by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, denounced the “fake news” being peddled by some people including former president Rodrigo Duterte.
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The Executive Secretary, in the statement, called the said “fake news” as “outrightly malicious and should be condemned as criminal.”
“Some quarters, including a former president, have maliciously peddled fake news about President Marcos having signed the GAA of 2025 with certain parts of the enactment purposely left blank to enable the administration to simply fill in the amounts like in a blank check,” ES Bersamin said in the statement.
“The peddling of such fake news is outrightly malicious and should be condemned as criminal. No page of the 2025 National Budget was left unturned before the president signed it into law,” the statement further reads.
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ES Bersamin also said that each and every page of the the 2025 budget documents has been exhaustively examined by Congressional and Department of Budget and Management staff.
“All 4,057 pages of its two thick volumes (which were printed in fine print — with nearly sixty lines on each page) were exhaustively reviewed by hundreds of professional staff from Congress and the Department of Budget and Management,” ES Bersamin further said.
“This meticulous line-by-line scrutiny is a pre-enactment check performed by dedicated civil servants to ensure that the GAA contained no single discrepancy in the amounts being appropriated. It is impossible for any funding items to be left blank, as alleged by misinformed and malicious sources,” he added.
In conclusion, the official statement issued by ES Bersamin said that President Duterte and his allies should know better.
“The former president and his cohorts should know better that the GAA could not contain blank items,” Malacañang Palace, through Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, stated.
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In other news, former Quezon City mayor Herbert Bautista and his former city administrator Aldrin Cuña were found guilty by the Sandiganbayan. Both were sentenced to a jail time of six to 10 years for graft. They were also perpetually disqualified to hold public office as a result of their conviction. The case stemmed over graft charges concerning a 2019 procurement of an Online Occupational Permitting Tracking System.
Meanwhile, Pres. Bongbong Marcos and First Lady Liza Marcos hosted a dinner with several senators. The dinner came after Iglesia Ni Cristo's "National Rally for Peace." The First Lady then posted the photo on her FBf page on Jan. 14, Tuesday. She captioned the photo as "dinner with senators and their spouses."
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