On the other, how can I be an effective advocate without doing evidence-based policy research?
Either way, this is how I choose to live out the spirit of EDSA.
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On the other, how can I be an effective advocate without doing evidence-based policy research?
Either way, this is how I choose to live out the spirit of EDSA.
At the 2025 OBS webinar last night, we were asked: “Are you an advocate or a researcher? I guess I am both? On one hand, what is the point of doing public financial management research if I do not advocate for better budgets and PFM systems?
In between these two important events yesterday were some inevitable work related to the ongoing refinements on the PH PEFA++ Assessment Report.
It was a very long and exhausting day that ended quite literally at midnight with the kick-off webinar for the 2025 Open Budget Survey with a global community of PFM researchers and advocates.
Yesterday was the second day of oral arguments on the consolidated cases regarding the transfer of PhilHealth’s funds to the Treaury and the Unnprogrammed Appropriations where Bev Ho and I serve as amici curiae at the Supreme Court.
Yesterday, I served as amicus curiae alongside Sonny Africa, Dr. Beverly Ho, Dr. Orville Solon and former DOF Secretary Margarito Teves in the consolidated petitions on the transfer of PhilHealth’s funds to the Treasury.
The oral arguments will continue on 25 Feb 2025.
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Hello, media colleagues. I am no longer connected with iLEAD and do not work full time for any institution. I do not wish to misrepresent myself.
I have been doing PH budget analyses independently since I stepped down as iLEAD's Executive Director last year.
Salamat po!
Wut?! Ang weird pakinggan hahaha!
Never encountered “skill” used as a verb. Weird.
Home for the New Year
Maligayang Pasko sa ating lahat!
Interview starts at the 21:36 mark: www.youtube.com/live/jlFuwyH...
One last interview with Korina Sanchez on Bilyonaryo News Channel before Noche Buena.
Ang sinabi ko lang naman ay walang intensyon ang Presidente na i-overhaul ang budget ayon sa panawagan ng maraming sektor. Hindi sapat ang direct veto para ibalik ang mga budget cuts.
The current budget impasse highlights only one thing: the 2025 budget is a budget that favors politicians. There is nothing in it that genuinely prioritizes Filipino taxpayers.
…due to the absence of a line item in the ratified version of the 2025 budget.
Expounded as well on the implications of a reenacted budget.
If the President vetoes the massive congressional insertions, savings may be declared to augment the line items that were slashed. However, there is still a need for a supplemental appropriations bill to provide appropriations cover for the subsidy of PhilHealth…
I talked about the implications of imposing a direct veto on the 288B insertion in the DPWH and why a direct veto is insufficient to restore defunded items like the 74B subsidy to PhilHealth, the 50B cut on the 4Ps Program and billions worth of programs/projects from the budgets of major departments
ICYMI: Yesterday on ANC Headstart, I spoke to Katrina Domingo about the excesses of the Bicam in prioritizing “pork”over what the whole country needs.
Full interview here: youtu.be/9nhP47ezU94?...
288B to DPWH
19B to Congress
For sure, sa mga soft projects ang iba
My comments on the "inefficiencies"
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The Bicam heads and the majority who voted yes to the 2025 Bicam report are undeniably ANTI-POOR!
Imagine slashing the DSWD by 96B and zero subsidy for PhilHealth's social insurance program. Unthinkable!
THIS IS THE WORST NATIONAL BUDGET I HAVE EVER SEEN.
Miscellaneous and Personnel Benefits Fund - 5B slashed
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund - 0.5B slashed
Pension and Gratuity Fund - 35B slashed
Total: 40.5B slashed from Special Purpose Funds.
PhilHealth - 74.4B slashed
NIA - 23.2B slashed
Total: 97.6B slashed from two major GOCCs alone
Summary of slashed budgets:
DA - 20B slashed
DepEd - 11.5B slashed
DOH - 25.8B slashed
DOLE - 18B slashed
DSWD - 95.9B slashed (NCIP slashed to ZERO; 4Ps Program slashed from 114B to 64B)
DOTr - 16.7B slashed
CHED - 26.9B slashed
Total: 214.8B slashed from NGAs
nd they have the gall to tell us this is all because of inefficiencies. Well, the inefficiencies will not disappear by slashing funds year after year.
They should be fixing those inefficiencies. What the hell are they all in office for?
The worst part of it? It's all of us ordinary Filipinos who will foot the bill!
The Bicam heads are only willing to give crumbs from a huge pie that rightfully belongs to all of us! The incompetent President and economic managers are ALL complicit here!
In an ideal world, the Php353B slashed from major departments, GOCCs and SPFs should have remained as investments for human capital development.
IMAGINE WHAT THAT AMOUNT COULD FUND INSTEAD?!
This is quite literally robbing Filipinos of a chance to have a better quality of life!
This screenshot is from Table A.2 of the 2025 Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing.
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Do you know how many percent of the programmed debt for 2025 the Php353B slashed from major departments is?
That's equivalent to 23 effing percent of the net financing program for 2025! See the third column in the screenshot.
We're not even talking about all the other soft projects like the infamous AKAP, the guarantee letters, and programs that legislators have allocations for.
But we've seen the magnitude of these in previous national budget's.