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[Title] => Marcos to sign budget on Jan. 5, 2026
[Summary] => The Palace confirmed that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will sign the budget on Jan. 5, 2026 — meaning that the country will operate on a re-enacted budget for five days.
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[Title] => ‘No midnight deals’: Sotto thumbs down pork accusations
[Summary] => Senate President Tito Sotto slammed claims that the Senate had inserted pork into the 2026 national budget, saying that the records were all there to prove that they did not.
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[Title] => Bicam Oks 2026 budget
[Summary] => The bicameral conference committee finished reconciling the conflicting provisions of the Senate and House of Representatives General Appropriations Bill (GAB) during the wee hours of Thursday, moving to prevent a reenacted budget.
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[Title] => P243 billion in unprogrammed funds restored at bicam
[Summary] => Despite Senate pledges, the bicam restored unprogrammed appropriations to over P243 billion in the 2026 budget.
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[Title] => Bicam OKs nearly P1 trillion education budget
[Summary] => On the first day of the bicameral conference committee hearings yesterday on the 2026 national budget – livestreamed for the first time – the Senate and House contingents approved a nearly P1-trillion allocation for the Department of Education and its attached agencies, with significant amounts earmarked for classroom construction, textbooks and feeding programs.
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[Title] => Bato dela Rosa absent from bicam
[Summary] => Sen. Bato dela Rosa continued his prolonged absence from work, even if he was delegated as a representative of the Senate to the bicameral conference committee (bicam) on Saturday, December 13.
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[Title] => Congress holds first-ever livestreamed bicam
[Summary] => Hoping to regain public trust after the massive flood control corruption scandal, Congress kicked off its first-ever livestreamed bicameral conference committee (bicam) on the national budget on Saturday, December 13, at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.
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[Title] => House adopts resolution for open, transparent bicam
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[Title] => Lawmakers agree to livestream budget bicam deliberations
[Summary] => Lawmakers have agreed to livestream the bicameral conference committee deliberations on the 2026 national budget to ensure transparency, President Marcos said yesterday, as the government grapples with a controversy sparked by questionable public works projects.
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[Title] => Bicam sessions to go live, says Marcos
[Summary] => President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday, October 15, announced that the bicameral conference committee for the 2026 national budget deliberation will be livestreamed.
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[Title] => ‘No midnight deals’: Sotto thumbs down pork accusations
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[Title] => P243 billion in unprogrammed funds restored at bicam
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[Title] => Bicam OKs nearly P1 trillion education budget
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[Title] => Bato dela Rosa absent from bicam
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[Title] => Lawmakers agree to livestream budget bicam deliberations
[Summary] => Lawmakers have agreed to livestream the bicameral conference committee deliberations on the 2026 national budget to ensure transparency, President Marcos said yesterday, as the government grapples with a controversy sparked by questionable public works projects.
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[Title] => Bicam sessions to go live, says Marcos
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