00:00The committee hearing of the Senate on the 6.352 trillion pesos proposed 2025 National Budget on October 18 is now over.
00:09This is after President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.'s urgent certification of House Bill 10800 or the 2025 General Appropriations Bill.
00:20According to Senate Finance Committee Chairperson Grace Poe, her committee is ready to lower the national fund at the time they receive the committee report.
00:30On Tuesday, President Marcos, Jr. urged Senate President Chis Escudero and House Speaker Martin Romualdez to speed up the passage of the 2025 National Budget so that the government's operation will not stop.