MANILA, Philippines (Updated 3:48 p.m.) — Hoping to regain public trust after the massive flood control corruption scandal, Congress kicked off its first-ever livestreamed bicameral conference ...

The 2026 budget is in, the 2025 budget is out. Zaldy Co’s post as chairman of the House committee on appropriations has been declared vacant. The lawmaker cited health reasons for his departure.

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Thursday clarified that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will not literally sit or be physically present at the 2026 budget deliberations but will instead pay ...

After the President announced on Wednesday that he had convinced Congress to livestream the bicameral conference on the 2026 national budget for greater transparency, the Makabayan bloc in the House ...

The House and Senate held a bicameral conference committee hearing on the 2026 General Appropriations Act at the PICC this Saturday. For the first time, the bicam session was livestreamed—part of ...

Some House members of the bicameral conference committee even poked fun at their Senate counterpart's absence at the postponed budget talks The bicameral conference committee (bicam) talks on the ...

We in the Senate leadership and majority welcome the bicam approval of the P6.793-trillion national budget for 2026 and we call it the most transparent in recent memory because the public saw every ...

THE year 2025 is coming to a close but the expositions and probes on the flood control fiasco is not expected to end forthwith considering the large number of anomalous transactions involving ...

After months of hearings and deliberations, Congress is now in the final stretch of crafting the proposed 2026 national budget. But instead of merely reconciling differences between the House and ...

Bicam to slash DPWH 2026 budget amid flood control scandal —Gatchalian Gatchalian requested that the members of the bicameral panel proceed instead with discussions of the budget of the other agencies ...