# House Plenary: FY 2027 General Appropriations Bill Day 9 - September 25, 2026 — Source-Linked Digest

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXD8anQUr0

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## At a glance

- **Agency take-up:** Proceedings moved from the Office of the Ombudsman and Judiciary to the Department of Finance presentation and questions, then a Philippine Statistics Authority sponsor entry without a presentation, lump-sum deliberations, and whole-bill speeches. Debate closed and consideration was suspended; the House did not pass the bill in this session.

- **Budget debate:** Members questioned revenue assumptions and earmarked transfers, sought reporting and reconciliation, and argued for changes to fuel, health, employee, disaster, education and infrastructure funding. Requests and commitments remained distinct from adopted appropriations.

Reading note: Follow each timestamp to the transcript and official video. Figures retain their stated fiscal year and scope; differing figures remain separate where the exchange did not reconcile them.

## Agency budget proposals

### Principal FY2027 agency proposals

The FY2027 National Expenditure Program (NEP) proposal for the Office of the Ombudsman was ₱7.23 billion including automatic appropriations; the sponsor gave no separate original agency-request total. The Judiciary proposal was ₱86.27 billion including automatic appropriations, 22.18% above its FY2026 allocation; the sponsor said the Supreme Court’s original proposal had been incorporated under the Judiciary Fiscal Autonomy Act. The Department of Finance (DOF) and attached agencies were presented at ₱32.03 billion in total expenditure, consisting of ₱28.64 billion in new appropriations and ₱3.40 billion in automatic appropriations. The DOF sponsor separately described the total as 3.5% below the current year. A separate original DOF agency-request total was not stated. These were proposed appropriations.

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### DOF allocations and revenue outlook

DOF sponsor Representative Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong said 77.6% of new appropriations, or ₱22.22 billion, would go to frontline operations. Within the attached-agency proposal, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) was allocated ₱19.40 billion, including ₱14.79 billion for revenue administration; the Bureau of Customs (BOC), ₱5.90 billion; the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr), ₱4.1 billion, including ₱69.8 million for the Treasury Single Account; and the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF), ₱325.6 million, including ₱151 million for the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act. He also cited ₱3.8 billion for technology across attached agencies. 

He described the projected 2027 revenue target as ₱5.21 trillion and deficits as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) of 5.4% in 2026, 5.1% in 2027 and 3.49% by 2030. In a separate revenue examination he gave a ₱5.26 trillion target, nearly ₱399 billion above the revised 2026 target; he broke the annual rise into ₱409.2 billion more tax revenue and ₱10.7 billion less non-tax revenue, for a ₱398.6 billion net increase. The differing 2027 targets were not reconciled. He attributed tax increases to ₱342.8 billion from BIR, ₱63.6 billion from BOC and ₱2.8 billion from other attached agencies. Adiong said each one-point real-growth decline would reduce tax revenue by ₱38.8 billion. Representative Jesus “Bong” C. Suntay separately cited ₱4.851 billion in tax revenue before the sponsor restated the unit as trillion and then “a billion”; that spoken unit remained inconsistent.

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### DOF requests, earmarks and fuel relief

Adiong discussed a proposed annual personal-income-tax exemption increase from ₱250,000 to ₱350,000 and possible annual savings up to ₱17,500, but clarified the exemption was not law and its projected revenue effects were not in the NEP. He promised a Philippine Institute for Development Studies elasticity study and smuggling data. 

On fuel marking, he attributed a 77% rise in declared imports and 179% rise in duties and taxes to the program, citing ₱163.54 billion in annual collections; he promised seizure data, projections and technical reviews. A proposed fuel-marking public-private partnership was cited at ₱13.44 billion; the sponsor said the proposed 10-centavo-per-liter charge would ultimately be borne by consumers, compared with a current ₱0.69 charge. No adoption was recorded. 

For fuel-tax relief, he cited ₱5 per liter for kerosene and ₱37 per liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder, and estimated diesel and gasoline excise relief at ₱6 and ₱10 per liter. Additional value-added tax (VAT) collection was cited first as ₱21 billion for March–June, then ₱32.6 billion and ₱33.6 billion through September 7, unreconciled; he warned universal suspension could cost ₱350 billion in revenue. Representative Sarah Jane I. Elago said the FY2027 National Expenditure Program (NEP) provided ₱0 for the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board fuel subsidy and ₱0 for the Presidential Assistance for Farmers and Fisherfolk production subsidy. She sought those subsidies, restoration of agriculture, industry and micro, small and medium enterprise support to FY2026 levels, and study of reducing or repealing the 12% VAT on food, electricity and oil. Adiong supported targeted aid and more education funding; no appropriation disposition was recorded.

Representative Dadah Kiram Ismula asked for the sin-tax certificates for 2022–2026, the latest certificate used for the proposed 2027 Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) amount, and year-by-year computations of collections, statutory earmarks, certified amounts and NEP allocations. The sponsor said DOF certifies actual collections while the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) sets the NEP allocation; he promised readable copies and a joint calculation with DBM, but gave no certification total. Ismula’s year series listed PhilHealth sin-tax earmarks of ₱83.90 billion in 2023, ₱79.1 billion in 2024, ₱69.81 billion in 2025 and ₱69.78 billion collected to date in 2026; UHC GAA appropriations were ₱55.10 billion (2023), ₱64.30 billion (2024), ₱68.90 billion (2025) and ₱72.72 billion (2026). Her cited 2027 NEP projections were ₱75.23 billion for PhilHealth sin-tax collection and ₱77.94 billion for the UHC appropriation. She requested records and reconciliation. Later, Representative Iris Marie Demesa Montes gave a PhilHealth-based shortfall estimate of ₱311.4 billion and cited other components; Appropriations Chairperson Representative Mikaela Angela B. Suansing relayed DBM’s ₱143.878 billion Department of Health (DOH) variance excluding Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) and Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) contributions. Their figures had different scopes and were not reconciled. Montes requested a DBM, DOH and PhilHealth reconciliation; Mikaela Suansing agreed to a meeting with Montes, PhilHealth and the BTr. No resolved allocation or increase was announced.

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### Lump-sum proposals and employee/disaster funding requests

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) sponsor entry was procedural: Representative Bella Vanessa B. Suansing was ready for questions, but no PSA presentation or overall amount occurred in that unit. No aggregate lump-sum amount was presented either. In the Growth Equity Fund (GEF) round, Representative Sarah Jane I. Elago listed allocations of ₱1.25 billion in 2022, ₱1 billion in 2023, none in 2024, ₱700 million in 2025, ₱11.3 billion in 2026 and ₱10.3 billion in the FY2027 proposal. Appropriations Chairperson Representative Mikaela Angela B. Suansing reported 430 local government unit (LGU) beneficiaries in 2022, 170 in 2023, 244 in 2025 and 875 in 2026; she did not give a 2024 count. She said a qualified-LGU list and allocation amounts existed, while project selection followed later LGU requests. She was open to refining guidelines and congressional review, but no itemization was adopted. The Support to Barangay Development Program grants varied: ₱20 million each for 822 barangays in 2021, ₱4 million for 1,406 in 2022, ₱6.6 million for 959 in 2023, ₱2.5 million for 864 in 2024 and 780 in 2025, ₱10 million for 808 in 2026 and ₱5 million for 1,948 in the FY2027 proposal. Suansing said the eligibility list came from the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict and committed DBM to future duplicate checks.

Representative Percival “Perci” Cendaña cited a Calamity Fund FY2027 request of ₱45.67 billion. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Program rose from ₱23.49 billion in the FY2026 GAA to ₱30 billion in the FY2027 NEP; the separate Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Assistance Program component of the calamity fund fell from ₱15.3 billion to ₱14.67 billion. Suansing said a contingent fund, other agency programs or returned savings could address insufficiency and said she would try to reinforce fertilizer assistance in the Department of Agriculture budget. She described more than ₱57 billion reserved for a possible Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation repayment, conditional on a court decision and the release trigger; she promised the latest available unprogrammed-appropriation release data.

Representative Antonio L. Tinio cited Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) appropriations of ₱22.99 billion in 2025 and ₱57.8 billion in 2026; its Financial Assistance to Local Government Units (FALGU) component was stated as ₱18.9 billion and ₱37.4 billion, and separately as ₱37.49 billion. The sponsor said current rules had no capital-outlay cap, but a future cap could be explored. Tinio cited utilization as low as 7%. He described the proposed Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund (MPBF) as ₱55.8 billion, including ₱21.8 billion for performance incentives, and characterized ₱11.79 billion as the personal economic relief allowance (PERA) increase. He requested protection and an increase, citing ₱2,000 monthly PERA and a proposed ₱500 monthly rise. The sponsor personally supported a PERA increase and said she would try to protect MPBF, but amendments remained subject to the Budget Amendments Review Subcommittee (BARC), and no increase was adopted.

In Cendaña’s exchange, Suansing corrected the MPBF amount for the proposed PERA increase to ₱11.793 billion, funding a ₱500 monthly rise from ₱2,000 to ₱2,500; disbursement remained under DBM evaluation. Cendaña sought an ₱8,000 allowance through House Bill 3874. Suansing supported increasing PERA without an adopted amendment.

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### Whole-budget pressures, restorations and redirection proposals

In his whole-bill speech, Minority Leader Marcelino C. Libanan put the proposed FY2027 national budget at ₱7.2 trillion against about ₱5.2 trillion in revenue. He cited ₱1.114 trillion in interest payments and ₱1.59 trillion in principal amortization, with principal outside the expenditure program. He said remaining discretionary fiscal space was about ₱2.6 trillion. He recapped proposed reductions and requests: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) from ₱113 billion to ₱99.08 billion; Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations from ₱63.9 billion to ₱33.29 billion; supplementary feeding from ₱9.56 billion to ₱6.36 billion; Representative Renee Louise M. Co’s concerns about a ₱7.68 billion state-university decrease; and free higher-education gaps of ₱4.97 billion for FY2025–26 and ₱2.77 billion for FY2027. In Libanan’s recap, Montes called for the full proposed ₱244 billion Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) allocation. Ismula separately compared roughly ₱300 billion proposed with about ₱74 billion provided for PhilHealth and cited an estimated 58% out-of-pocket share for catastrophic illness. On Marawi compensation, Ismula cited about ₱7 billion needed against ₱1 billion provided for FY2027. Representative Jernie Jett V. Nisay sought retention of ₱2.535 billion for Department of Health (DOH) health-promotion and grassroots sports ; Representative Roberto Nazal sought restoration of ₱1.5 billion for the 3Ps affordable-enterprise-capital program.

Libanan recapped Representative Presley C. De Jesus’s electrification concerns: the National Electrification Administration (NEA) proposal fell from ₱10.134 billion in FY2026 to ₱6.486 billion in FY2027, with ₱2.001 billion for missionary electrification; Cendaña sought restoration of EDSA Carousel service-contracting and fuel subsidies, which had no FY2027 funding; Representative JC M. Abalos questioned ₱5.062 billion for the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS), with ₱4.92 billion at central office and ₱130 million shared across 16 regions and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao; Representative Audrey Kay T. Zubiri cited the Sugarcane Industry Development Act’s ₱2 billion annual mandate against about ₱1.020 billion in the FY2026 GAA. Libanan reported ₱130 million in government support and about ₱500 million expected from the Asian Development Bank for a ₱650 million Sorsogon–Samar feasibility-study requirement, ₱350 million for Southern Leyte–Surigao, and ₱80 million in the FY2026 GAA for Camarines Sur–Catanduanes. These were reported plans and requests, not completed construction or adopted amendments.

Tinio argued that ₱107 billion restored for flood control should be removed and redirected to services; he said the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) might propose a ₱20 billion institutional item. He called for ending LGSF as presidential pork, removing confidential and intelligence funds he valued at over ₱10 billion, restoring education, health, housing and social-welfare funding, and requested ₱5.3 billion for free higher-education deficiency plus production subsidies of ₱50,000 for farmers and ₱30,000 for fishers (unit basis unstated). He also called for at least doubling the proposed ₱11.79 billion PERA allocation and raising the monthly allowance. These positions were not adopted as amendments. Libanan separately urged project, beneficiary and purpose disclosure and objective GAA standards for local-government support while preserving Congress’s power of appropriation.

At the close of the session, sponsorship and debate were closed, but consideration was suspended; the bill was not passed in this sitting.

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## Office of the Ombudsman

### Sponsorship

Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez, vice chairperson of the Committee on Appropriations, described the Office of the Ombudsman as a constitutional protector of the people and a safeguard against corruption, inefficiency and high-handedness in public service. He said the proposed budget would strengthen its investigative, prosecutorial and administrative capacity, with priorities including digital infrastructure for case tracking and forensic investigation, staffing regional offices such as the one in Mindanao, and expanding public assistance and corruption-prevention initiatives.

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### Rep. Renee Louise M. Co

Rep. Renee Louise M. Co moved to terminate deliberation on the Office of the Ombudsman budget because no minority member wished to question the sponsor. Rep. Marlyn L. Primicias-Agabas joined the motion for the majority. Deputy Speaker Yasser Alonto Balindong heard no objection and declared interpellation terminated.

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## Judiciary

### Sponsorship

Rodriguez supported resourcing the Judiciary to perform its constitutional duties independently and meet growing demands on the justice system, describing it as a co-equal independent branch and a guardian of constitutional rights. He said the budget would support greater efficiency, transparency and integrity, and a more equitable and efficient justice system. He presented the proposal for the chamber’s consideration and offered to answer questions.

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### Rep. Sergio C. Dagooc

Rep. Sergio C. Dagooc thanked the Court Administrator for resolving a longstanding problem with electric cooperatives’ payment of electricity bills for regional trial courts. He said a special unit had been created to act promptly on cooperatives’ bills from the provinces.

With no minority member seeking to interpellate, Dagooc moved to terminate debate on the Judiciary’s proposed FY 2027 budget. The majority joined; after hearing no objection, Deputy Speaker Yevgeny Vincente B. Emano declared interpellation terminated.

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## Department of Finance

### Sponsorship

DOF sponsor Rep. Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong described a fiscal strategy of stronger revenue generation with inclusive, sustainable growth. The funded priorities included tax administration, compliance audits and tax-evasion enforcement; customs revenue enhancement, border protection and anti-smuggling systems; the Treasury Single Account for managing government cash; real-property valuation reform to strengthen local revenue capacity; and technology for revenue collection and digital risk management.

Adiong said the DOF’s obligation-to-appropriations ratio rose from 92.7% in 2023 to 94.8% in 2025. He said BIR tax collections surpassed ₱3 trillion for the first time. He reported general government debt at 56.8% of GDP, below the 70% international benchmark he cited for debt sustainability. He said 67% of outstanding debt was domestic, reducing foreign-exchange exposure, and 90% carried fixed interest rates, limiting exposure to interest-rate changes. He linked the fiscal approach to the Philippine Development Plan 2023–2028 and the Medium-Term Fiscal Framework, which he said sought better jobs, higher incomes and a single-digit poverty rate by 2028. He urged approval of the FY2027 DOF and attached-agency proposal, arguing that revenue mobilization and fiscal management support public infrastructure, social safety nets and national development goals.

He also cited two A- ratings from Japanese credit-rating agencies, investment-grade BBB+ from S&P Global and Baa2 from Moody's, and the anticipated January 2027 inclusion of peso-denominated government bonds in J.P. Morgan's Government Bond Index Emerging Markets.

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### Rep. Iris Marie Demesa Montes

Rep. Iris Marie Demesa Montes asked the Department of Finance (DOF) sponsor, Rep. Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong, for the debt-to-GDP projection under the proposed 2027 national budget, which she cited as ₱7.2 trillion. Adiong gave 58.6% as the current ratio and said it was expected to decline over time. Montes said figures she had seen put the current rate at about 66%, which she understood was not the official figure, and asked whether the 2027 projection would be lower or higher, including under worst-case assumptions. Adiong clarified that the roughly 6-something-percent figure referred to national-government debt, while he described the debt-to-GDP ratio as about 58.6% in 2020; he did not give a specific 2027 worst-case projection. The baseline figures stated in the exchange remained unreconciled.

Asked why the debt remained manageable despite rising interest payments, Adiong cited 2025 national-government debt at 63.2% of GDP and general-government debt at 56.8% of GDP, below the 70% international benchmark he attributed to the World Bank. He said borrowing was mostly domestic, reducing exposure to foreign shocks and currency fluctuations; he put domestic borrowing at 67.3% and said 90% of the debt had fixed interest rates, allowing the government to project interest costs. He also described the repayment structure as long term. When Montes asked what DOF was doing on fiscal consolidation and requested a deficit-reduction timeline, Adiong said the medium-term fiscal framework targeted a gradual decline: about 5.4% of GDP in the current year, 5.1% the next year, 4.8% from 2028, and 4.2% in 2029, with a 3.5% deficit-to-GDP ratio as the 2030 goal. He framed these as projections based on actual borrowing, expenditure and possible tax and non-tax revenue, and said DOF was enforcing fiscal discipline across agencies and prioritizing high-multiplier capital investment.

Montes asked how projections would respond to external shocks. Adiong said the assessment involved the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC), the Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev), the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP); if unexpected international-market shocks required policy changes, DOF would help develop an adequate response. On revenue mobilization, Montes asked which specific tax measures or administrative reforms would deliver assumed revenues, how ordinary workers would be protected, and whether planned asset sales—including the Kalayaan geothermal asset and Makati properties—were part of the plan. Adiong described proposed progressive tax reforms, including raising the annual personal-income-tax exemption from ₱250,000 to ₱350,000, which he said could yield annual savings of up to ₱17,500 for taxpayers; he also mentioned exemptions for micro and small enterprises. He listed tax measures covering automobiles, e-cigarettes and novel tobacco, plastics, sweetened beverages, distilled spirits and vermouth, with a stated total revenue impact of 43.62 billion pesos. Asked whether that would cover the revenue gap, he said DOF’s data and trajectory showed the country remained on a good financial track even if the packages proceeded.

Montes asked for assurance that the debt path would not compromise long-term fiscal sustainability, intergenerational security or equity. Adiong answered yes and projected debt-to-GDP at 56.1% the next year. He reiterated that the debt was manageable and that domestic borrowing reduced exposure to external shocks. Montes then questioned how the public could reconcile claims of sustainability with recurring “tight fiscal space,” unfunded mandates and requests for higher program funding, asking how that fiscal space could be expanded. Adiong said DOF’s role was to raise revenue for capital investment and public spending, with prudent fiscal planning to match spending to available resources. He said fiscal space could grow through tax and non-tax revenues, more jobs and local economic activity, and productive borrowing that spurs activity; he also said the government aimed to lower debt and deficit ratios while growing the economy and future revenue. Montes expressed hope that the assumptions would be realized by the next budget hearing. In a final reassurance, Adiong added that public expenditure was 22% of GDP and said the country spent more than its ASEAN neighbors.

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### Rep. JC M. Abalos

Rep. JC M. Abalos said Republic Act No. 12001, the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act (RPVARA), was intended to standardize property valuation, improve tax administration and strengthen local government fiscal capacity. Citing changed economic conditions, including inflation and the Middle East oil crisis, he said he had filed a House resolution in July to review the law and consider suspending implementation. He also cited the President’s August call for temporary suspension and the Private Sector Advisory Council’s recommendation, then asked for the Department of Finance’s (DOF) position.

DOF sponsor Rep. Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong said the department follows laws enacted by Congress and would implement an extension or deferral if the legislature chose one.

Abalos asked what economic effects might follow if RPVARA proceeded on schedule, including effects on local property taxes, other taxes, housing costs, businesses and rents. Adiong said DOF had no definite data; he said the valuation system is tied to local government revenue and local assessors’ valuation boards, and suggested implementation might slow economic activity.

Abalos asked DOF to provide available data and policy recommendations. Adiong agreed to furnish the requested data and said the department supported Abalos’s resolution; Abalos then ended his questions.

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### Rep. Edgar R. Erice

Representative Edgar R. Erice questioned the basis for a 2027 national revenue target of about ₱5.26 trillion and said it was nearly ₱399 billion above the revised 2026 target. Representative Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong, the sponsor, said the Department of Finance (DOF) used the latest Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) macroeconomic variables and a buoyancy or elasticity model. He described a ₱398.6 billion year-on-year revenue increase in 2027, with tax revenues rising 409.2 billion pesos and non-tax revenue declining 10.7 billion pesos, for a net increase of 398.6 billion pesos. He attributed the 409.2 billion peso tax increase to 342.8 billion pesos from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), 63.6 billion pesos from the Bureau of Customs (BOC), and 2.8 billion pesos from other attached agencies. He said the tax increase of about 9.21% was broadly in line with DBCC-projected nominal GDP growth of 9.13%, which DOF used as a proxy for the tax base. Adiong said the assumed real GDP growth range was 5–6%; a one-percentage-point decline would lower tax revenue by 38.8 billion pesos. Erice asked for sensitivity analysis at 2%, 3% and 4% growth. Adiong said DOF would seek to raise dividends from government-owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs) from 50% to 75%, collect other non-tax revenues and potentially sell government properties. He confirmed borrowing remained part of the funding mix.

Erice asked about the proposed increase in the income-tax exemption threshold to ₱350,000 and its 2027 revenue loss. Adiong first gave ₱61.6 billion, then clarified it was a projected loss if the measure were enacted; he said it was not yet law and was not included in the NEP. Later in the exchange he cited ₱67.02 billion in projected losses, and separately described a tax-reform package with an estimated ₱110.64 billion in subtotal revenue, around ₱67.2 billion in projected losses and about ₱43.62 billion in gains. He also referred to about ₱60-point-something billion in possible losses and a separate ₱10-billion loss, then said ₱32.60 billion would remain; he did not reconcile these scopes or figures.

The reform package covered automobiles and electric cars, e-cigarettes, novel tobacco, plastics, sweetened beverages and distilled spirits. Erice relayed industry leaders’ claim that 27–32% of sales would be affected and asked about effects on the tax base. Adiong said lower demand was included in projections. Erice warned that lower sales could cost jobs and objected that “tax relief is not employment”; Adiong acknowledged possible employment effects and cited tax relief and household income as responses. Adiong said a Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) elasticity study projected ₱63.26 billion from sweetened-beverage taxes and promised Erice a copy of the study and supporting data on smuggling. He said the proposal had both public-health and revenue aims. Erice also questioned adding alcohol taxes when automatic annual excise indexation already raises them, arguing that higher prices could reduce sales and hurt the industry. Adiong said DOF follows tax adjustments and policies enacted by Congress and noted that tax incentives or exemptions may apply to small businesses; Erice disputed that this fit alcohol producers.

Erice asked how much annual revenue government would lose if the travel tax were abolished, and named the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), Commission on Higher Education (CHED) among the affected agencies. Adiong said travel-tax revenue was earmarked for specific agencies, but did not give an annual loss estimate. Erice said about ₱8 billion in subsidies for agencies he named would need to be assumed if the exemption took effect; Adiong said the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), rather than DOF, had the primary mandate to itemize program allocations. Erice requested one consolidated fiscal table showing the ₱5.26-trillion revenue target, income-tax exemption and travel-tax effects, VAT losses from removing system-loss charges, electric-cooperative subsidies, new beverage and excise-tax receipts, and losses from lower sales, investment, employment and consumption. He said he was not asking for it that day but hoped to receive it in a few weeks. Adiong did not provide a table in this exchange; he said losses would need to be offset through more efficient BIR and BOC collections and asked Erice to support additional funding for both agencies, without stating an amount. Adiong also said the DOF could not determine fiscal space for agency allocations and that DBM had the primary role in setting those allocations.

Erice asked whether ₱3.304 trillion was the government’s planned 2027 borrowing. Adiong distinguished net borrowing of 1.7 trillion pesos from gross borrowing, then confirmed government borrowing of ₱3.30 trillion in 2027; after Erice restated ₱3.304 trillion, Adiong said that figure was correct. Adiong confirmed Erice’s ₱2.389-trillion domestic-borrowing figure. Erice also said 915 billion pesos in external borrowing and 1.695 trillion pesos to finance the deficit; Adiong confirmed these figures. Erice said roughly 48 of every 100 borrowed would go to principal amortization and refinancing, which Adiong also confirmed. Asked when debt rollover becomes a serious problem, Adiong pointed to a 70% baseline and said the current figure was “56 point something percent,” calling it deficit-to-GDP and comparing it with 70%; he did not clarify the measure in this exchange. Erice asked whether national-government debt rose from about 12.79 trillion pesos inherited by the administration to a projected 21.48 trillion pesos by the end of 2027, an 8.69-trillion-peso increase; Adiong agreed and emphasized that the debt had accumulated over the years. Erice also asked DOF to identify the economic return from major borrowing-funded programs. Adiong said the return measures should be tied to each agency’s spending and that each agency, rather than DOF, should identify the returns from its programs, services and capital investments.

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### Rep. Sarah Jane I. Elago

Representative Sarah Jane I. Elago cited Republic Act No. 12316, which authorizes the President to suspend or reduce petroleum excise taxes when the monthly average Dubai crude price reaches $80 per barrel, on recommendation of the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) in coordination with the Department of Energy (DOE). She said the DOE had certified a price of $99.41 per barrel and asked how long the announced DBCC-recommended suspension for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene would last. Department of Finance (DOF) sponsor Rep. Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong said it could run for up to three months and be renewed depending on petroleum market conditions.

Elago asked whether the DBCC had filed the report due within 15 days of the April suspension, including its factual basis, policy goals, estimated foregone revenue and effects on household social benefits, inflation and fuel prices, plus a cost-benefit analysis and assessment of market distortions and unintended effects. Adiong said DOF had submitted a report to Congress and the Senate and agreed to provide its study and assessment. Asked about per-unit relief from the current suspension, he cited ₱5 per liter for kerosene and ₱37 per LPG cylinder.

Elago asked why the suspension did not also cover diesel and gasoline. Adiong estimated that suspending their excise taxes would reduce the tax by ₱6 per liter of diesel and ₱10 per liter of gasoline. Elago said September had brought three successive large oil-price increases, with diesel at about ₱104 per liter and gasoline at about ₱87 per liter, pressing transport and agricultural users and fishers whose work depends on fuel. Adiong said relief should be targeted and calibrated because broad tax suspension would reduce revenue needed for emergency assistance to transport workers, students, farmers and fishers.

Elago said some fishers had received about ₱2,000 in aid, while other areas remained unreached and fuel-subsidy distribution had not started. She described fishers using about 10 liters of diesel per trip and daily earnings falling from roughly ₱800–₱1,000 to ₱200–₱300 after crude exceeded ₱100. She also described farmers facing high fuel and fertilizer costs, jeepney drivers foregoing trips because they would lose money, and ride-hailing drivers extending workdays from 12 to 14–15 hours. Adiong said agencies were assessing who had received assistance and that international oil markets determined petroleum prices.

Elago argued that higher value-added tax (VAT) collections on oil could partly offset revenue lost from excise-tax suspension, and pressed for broader temporary excise relief on diesel and gasoline. Adiong cited ₱21 billion in additional VAT collection from diesel and gasoline from March through June, then reported a projected ₱32.6 billion in additional VAT collection through September 7, 2026 across the principal commodities under discussion. In a later answer he called the projected amount ₱33.6 billion; the two totals were not reconciled. He said this revenue would support targeted assistance. Elago asked for full subsidy coverage and collection data, noting that current aid did not reach all affected people. Adiong cited possible ₱10.6 billion in further losses and warned that a universal suspension including VAT on diesel and gasoline would mean ₱350 billion in lost revenue, which he said would constrain subsidies and regular programs.

Elago said the 2027 National Expenditure Program (NEP) allocated ₱0 for the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board’s fuel subsidy and ₱0 for the Presidential Assistance for Farmers and Fisherfolk production subsidy. She called for including production and fuel subsidies in the 2027 General Appropriations Act and restoring funding for local agriculture, Philippine industries and Filipino micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to 2026 levels. She also urged Congress to study reducing or repealing the 12% VAT on food, electricity and oil. Adiong joined the call and urged the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to provide more for education. These were requests and expressions of support in this exchange; no appropriation disposition was recorded.

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### Rep. Dadah Kiram Ismula

Rep. Dadah Kiram Ismula of Akbayan asked the Department of Finance (DOF) sponsor, Rep. Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong, about a shortfall she said had been acknowledged in Department of Budget and Management (DBM) budget deliberations between statutory sin-tax earmarks and amounts reflected in the National Expenditure Program (NEP). Adiong said DOF certifies actual excise-tax collections and sends its certification to DBM, while DBM decides the proposed NEP allocation for the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). He said the certification had no formal title; what DOF could provide was a Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) certification showing the exact sin-tax collections. Adiong later agreed that the certification was used by DBM as a basis for determining appropriations for PhilHealth’s statutorily mandated health programs, but continued to defer allocation decisions to DBM.

Ismula cited Joint Circular No. 1, Series of 2022, issued by the DBM, DOF, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), and PhilHealth. She said it set annual and quarterly certification timelines for DOF and attached agencies to submit records to DBM, the Department of Health (DOH), and PhilHealth. Asked when the fiscal-year 2025 certification was submitted, Adiong said the copy available to him was an unreadable soft copy and that certificates had been transmitted to DBM. He offered to furnish a readable hard copy, later saying one certificate had been released on February 13, 2026, but could not provide its concrete total during the exchange. Ismula accepted the promised copies and said her office had not received documents it requested on September 22, 2026: sin-tax certificates for 2022–2026, the latest certificate used as the basis for 2027 PhilHealth funding, and a year-by-year computation comparing total collections, the statutory earmark, the DOF-certified amount, and the amount ultimately included in the NEP. Adiong promised to forward the copies and said DOF would sit down with DBM to calculate any difference and provide accurate figures.

To illustrate collections, Adiong gave 2025 sin-tax figures of ₱148.74 billion from tobacco, ₱126.43 billion from alcohol, ₱3.48 billion from e-cigarettes, and ₱39.33 billion from sweetened beverages. He separately cited aggregate sin-tax collections of ₱289.34 billion in 2023, ₱295.65 billion in 2024, and ₱317.97 billion in 2025. Asked what portion was earmarked for health, he described a calculation of 80% of 50% of collections going to PhilHealth. When later asked for the annual PhilHealth earmark series, he gave ₱83.90 billion for 2023, ₱79.1 billion for 2024, ₱69.81 billion for 2025, and ₱69.78 billion collected so far in 2026. For Universal Health Care (UHC) appropriations in the General Appropriations Act (GAA), he gave ₱55.10 billion for 2023, ₱64.30 billion for 2024, ₱68.90 billion for 2025, and ₱72.72 billion for 2026. When Ismula asked to separate UHC from PhilHealth appropriations, he promised to provide the breakdown; the exchange did not give a separate PhilHealth GAA series. For the proposed 2027 NEP, he gave projected sin-tax collections of ₱75.23 billion for PhilHealth and ₱77.94 billion for UHC. These were presented as projected collections, distinct from the GAA appropriation figures.

Ismula repeatedly asked DOF to confirm the difference between amounts required by law to be earmarked and amounts reflected in the NEP. Adiong acknowledged a difference between collections, earmarking, and amounts appropriated, but said it was not a shortfall in the sense of uncollected revenue: he said sin-tax proceeds were earmarked to PhilHealth and DBM allocated the funds. When asked where any unearmarked excess went, he explicitly said this was not DOF’s position, but his personal understanding was that savings went to the Bureau of the Treasury; he then said DBM had primary responsibility for determining unused funds and their disposition. Ismula countered that DBM had acknowledged a shortfall in its documents, including a ₱16 billion gap in the 2026 PhilHealth budget based on sin-tax collections, which she said had recurred since 2021. Adiong maintained that DOF certified collections while DBM identified differences and made allocations; the agencies’ stated positions remained unresolved in the exchange.

Ismula asked what steps would rectify the gap and whether DOF would support congressional action to ensure legally required health earmarks were fully recognized in the national budget. Adiong said DOF would coordinate with DBM, whose mandate covered specific allocations, while DOF’s role was to collect taxes and certify receipts. He said DOF supported prioritizing earmarked revenue for health under the law and respected Congress’s oversight authority. In closing, Ismula blamed DOF and the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) for failing to ensure sin-tax revenue was allocated for UHC as required by law, and said patients with cancer, kidney disease, and other illnesses were left struggling to cover hospital bills. She said she would propose budget amendments at the proper time to have the required earmarks recognized and provided for; no amendment was moved or adopted in this exchange.

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### Rep. Roberto Nazal

Representative Roberto Nazal asked how the Department of Finance (DOF) Treasury arrangement for the Higher Education Development Fund (HEDF) complied with Republic Act No. 7722’s requirement that the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) appoint a reputable government financial institution (GFI) as portfolio manager. He argued that Executive Order No. 338 could not displace the statute. After a suspension to retrieve CHED’s letter, sponsor Representative Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong confirmed CHED had requested a trust fund as an alternative source if travel-tax collection were abolished. He read the request for GFI contributions equivalent to 3–5% of the preceding year’s unimpaired surplus and cited the law’s provision for alternative funding for travel-tax-supported programs after a phase-out. Adiong said the HEDF should be administered by CHED, which should appoint its portfolio manager, and confirmed that funds remained with the Bureau of the Treasury. He said DOF would coordinate with CHED and comply with the law; when Nazal requested a timeline and written commitment, Adiong agreed and said Nazal would be informed, but gave no date or completed compliance action.

Nazal asked what independent evidence showed that fuel marking deters smuggling rather than adding charges to compliant imports. Adiong cited a 77% increase in declared import volume, a 179% increase in duties and taxes collected, an increase of about 11.2 billion liters in annual fuel imports and ₱163.54 billion in annual collections, attributing the collection increase to fuel marking. Nazal cited 142 apprehensions and 31 cases since 2023–2024 but only one conviction under the program; Adiong acknowledged the single conviction and said Customs was reviewing or refiling cases to meet the Department of Justice’s evidentiary standard. Adiong cited 52 fuel or oil seizures and gave an estimated value first as ₱202 billion, then as ₱202,051,645.95; the figures were not reconciled. He promised copies of seizure data, a full collection projection and a technical cost-benefit and supplier-integrity review. Nazal questioned the safety of halogenated marking compounds, citing reports that other countries had stopped using them, and asked about alternative systems. Adiong said the material was approved by energy and environment authorities, affirmed independent safety testing and promised the report.

On a proposed public-private partnership (PPP), Nazal cited a ₱13.44-billion proposal and asked about its per-liter cost and payer. Adiong said the offer was 10 centavos per liter, paid initially by oil companies but charged to consumers, compared with a current charge of ₱0.69 per liter, also paid by oil companies. He attributed the increase to inflation since the 2018 pricing, without reconciling the different rates or establishing the proposal’s final status.

Nazal asked whether a project could be declared abandoned before contract award and on what grounds. Adiong said the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) had the mandate to decide funding allocation, including obligated and unobligated funds, and offered a copy of the National Budget Circular governing annual fund releases. Nazal pressed for DOF’s role in defining savings and policy direction; Adiong maintained that the circular and allocation rules belonged to DBM.

Nazal then asked whether the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) had issued a circular on value-added tax (VAT) treatment of system-loss charges. Adiong confirmed one existed and said, based on information from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), it would apply in November. On debt management, Adiong said DOF had published its medium-term debt management strategy, which formed the basis of the borrowing program, and affirmed Nazal’s understanding that it included a cost-benefit analysis of the domestic and foreign loan mix.

Nazal asked whether DOF compared borrowing or cash-management savings against the public costs of delayed releases when earmarked revenues remained in the Treasury despite funding needs at the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the Bureau of Fire Protection and other agencies. He cited delayed healthcare, human-capital development, digital-government improvements and services such as free Wi-Fi as potential lost benefits. Adiong said DOF did not study the effects of delayed releases or interest rates and described its main role as identifying revenue from taxes, loans and dividends; he repeatedly said DBM programs and allocates and implementing agencies spend the funds. He explained that obligated multi-year funding continues to be paid rather than automatically returning to the Treasury.

Nazal argued that earmarked funds can be used in lieu of borrowing and asked who decides when they are used, including whether the public-service cost of diversion is assessed. Adiong deferred allocation and release questions to DBM and implementing agencies. Nazal’s example of a ₱20-billion balance and ₱10-billion request was hypothetical, not a statement of actual balances or a specific agency request. The round ended without a comparative assessment of interest savings and delayed public benefits.

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### Rep. Jesus "Bong" C. Suntay

Rep. Jesus “Bong” C. Suntay described the FY2027 obligation budget proposal as ₱7.2 trillion, against projected revenues of ₱5.2 trillion and cash disbursements of about ₱6.9 trillion. He put the difference between revenue and cash outlays at about ₱1.69 trillion.

Department of Finance (DOF) sponsor Rep. Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong gave projected tax revenue as ₱4.851 billion and non-tax revenue as ₱354.5 billion. In a follow-up he restated the tax figure as ₱4.851 trillion, then said “a billion,” leaving the spoken unit inconsistent. Suntay identified the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) as the main collectors; he summarized their combined target as about ₱4.8 trillion, or 92.4% of national government revenues, which Adiong confirmed.

Adiong said the revenue assumptions came from several agencies, including the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the National Economic and Development Authority. He cited nominal GDP growth of 9.13%, base real GDP growth of 5.29%, inflation of 4%–5%, 364-day Treasury-bill rates of 5.5%–6%, and an exchange-rate assumption of ₱60–₱62 per US dollar.

Suntay questioned whether collections could meet the target amid slowing activity. He cited real growth of 5.7% in 2024 and 4.4% in 2025, 2.6% year-on-year growth in the first half of 2026, a 9.2% second-quarter contraction in gross capital formation, a 2.4% contraction in industry, and household-consumption growth of 2.8%. Against the government’s 5.6% growth target for 2027, he estimated that each one-percentage-point increase in real growth would add about ₱38.8 billion to revenue and a one-point increase in inflation about ₱36 billion; he said the revenue effects would reverse if assumptions were missed. Using 5.5% as an analytical midpoint, he estimated about ₱19.4 billion less revenue at 5.0% growth and ₱38 billion less at 4.5%. Adiong replied that the forecast relied on other agencies’ assumptions and that the Development Budget Coordination Committee met quarterly; he pointed to stronger BIR and BOC collection efficiency and tax-policy improvements to compensate for shocks.

Suntay argued that weaker growth and a decline in foreign investment made faster collection alone an uncertain way to broaden the tax base. Adiong described a wider collection strategy: broaden the tax base, raise dividends from 50% to 75%, privatize or sell government assets, close tax leakages and smuggling, digitize BIR collection, and modernize BOC scanning equipment. He named Mile Long, FTI, SLEX shares and Semirara holdings among the assets under consideration.

Suntay separately cited a ₱2.53 billion non-tax revenue estimate and asked how much privatization could add. Adiong said DOF was examining additional non-tax and tax revenues and acknowledged that more borrowing might be needed if receipts were insufficient. The exchange did not reconcile Suntay’s ₱2.53 billion estimate with Adiong’s earlier non-tax revenue total.

Suntay questioned whether Congress should approve a lower budget proposal given the outlook and the government’s borrowing needs. Adiong argued that austerity was not necessarily prudent: well-targeted, well-implemented public spending and capital investment could support local economic activity, while an abrupt slowdown could make the debt-to-GDP problem harder to solve. Suntay countered that debt service would absorb a large share of borrowing rather than finance growth projects.

On the financing mix, Suntay cited ₱3.3 trillion in gross borrowing. Adiong said ₱1.34 trillion would pay maturing domestic debt and ₱254 billion would refinance maturing external obligations. Suntay summed principal amortization at ₱1.59 trillion; Adiong confirmed the two components. Adiong put net financing at ₱1.69 trillion. Suntay also cited public debt of ₱19.39 trillion at the end of July 2026 and described the fiscal plan as reducing the deficit from 5.4% of GDP in 2026 to 5.1% in 2027 and 3.5% by 2030.

Suntay asked whether implementation of the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act (RPVARA) could allow valuation and approval processes to continue while delaying the tax effect of updated market-value schedules. Adiong said DOF supported deferment. Asked about safeguards against sudden, disproportionate property-tax increases, Adiong cited a provision he described as a 6% cap for the agency and said DOF was still studying proposals to cushion increases.

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### Rep. Renee Louise M. Co

Representative Renee Louise M. Co asked how local government units (LGUs) and community organizations could access the People’s Survival Fund (PSF), established with a ₱1-billion opening balance in 2012. Sponsor Representative Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong said applicants undergo regular vetting and that the Department of Finance (DOF) would provide the criteria, which were also posted online. Citing 2025 data, he reported ₱401,681,000 released; he initially described ₱568,938,765 as released in the current year and 36.74% of the 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA) allocation of ₱1,548,000,000. After Co pressed for cumulative figures, Adiong said ₱568,930,000 was cumulative and identified ₱29,087,000 as the starting release in 2018. Co requested annual, percentage and project-recipient reports, and Adiong agreed to provide them. Co also cited the statutory requirement that the PSF not fall below ₱1 billion; Adiong agreed, said the fund had been replenished more than three times, and said replenishments came only from the GAA.

Co argued that extensive technical studies and documentation can exclude poorer municipalities and community groups without consultants, leaving climate-adaptation funding underused. Adiong said DOF was working with the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) to streamline applications and speed releases without compromising project quality, and Co requested the corresponding recommendations and reports. Co proposed an El Niño fast-track window, with the PSF board potentially designating half of its current budget for simplified, faster projects, prioritizing fifth- and sixth-class municipalities and measures such as rainwater harvesting, crop diversification and watershed management. Adiong welcomed the recommendation and said DOF would work with Co on improvements; no allocation or fast-track approval was recorded.

Co asked for the findings of a July 1 joint inspection of nine recycling locators in Subic, after citing about 253 containers of electronic waste and difficulties exercising inspection authority. Adiong said Customs returned e-waste cargo to its country of origin after processing and documentation, while Co requested the inspection report. Co asked for continued enforcement under the Basel Convention; Adiong said Customs and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) were coordinating and pledged compliance with treaty directions.

Co then asked about intercepted shipments she described as scrap copper or suspected e-waste, including a July 25 shipment aboard the MV Tokyo Express and a later shipment. Adiong said Customs assessed the materials as scrap metals, but electronic testing produced a positive result that he thought might indicate hospital equipment using radioactive materials; assessment was ongoing. He promised a Customs assessment report. Co requested reports on three interceptions, naming July 1, July 25 and August 18, while earlier describing the later shipment as August 22. She also asked whether a Regional Trial Court (RTC) ruling that Subic Bay Freeport Zone was outside customs territory impeded the Bureau of Customs (BOC). Adiong said coordination with the Subic Free Zone was proper and that the ruling had not interrupted or delayed Customs’ inspection mandate.

Co asked what could justify disallowing a business’s tax deduction for discounts to persons with disabilities (PWDs), beyond missing sales records or PWD identification details. Adiong initially said DOF was unaware of Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) cases disallowing the claims and emphasized that PWDs should receive the statutory discount. Co said small businesses had reported denied deduction claims and argued that establishments should not bear the full burden of verifying PWD identification, especially when the online system was not current. She asked for investigation and details of grievances. Adiong said BIR would act, requested a list of affected businesses and locations so it could investigate, and said such treatment would not be tolerated.

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### Rep. Sergio C. Dagooc

Rep. Sergio C. Dagooc of APEC Party-list asked whether the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) would revisit Resolution No. 24-87 concerning electric cooperatives’ income-tax exemption. Rep. Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong, the Department of Finance (DOF) sponsor, agreed. Asked what steps would follow, Adiong said DOF would seek advice from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to confirm the resolution’s legality; he confirmed that this included raising the issue with DOJ.

Dagooc asked whether DOF and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) would study fuel and electricity value-added tax (VAT) thresholds based on the price references used in annual revenue projections. For fuel, he posed a hypothetical diesel reference of ₱60 and a price of ₱140, with the existing 12% tax, and asked whether a limit such as ₱70, ₱80, or ₱90 could cap the price subject to tax while continuing to collect tax up to the selected threshold. For electricity, he distinguished changing generation and transmission charges from distribution, supply, and metering charges, and proposed a technology-specific generation-cost benchmark. Using a hypothetical ₱8 coal benchmark and generation costs of ₱10–₱12, he asked whether the taxable amount could be limited, suggesting ₱9.50–₱10 as possible levels. These were proposed studies and examples, not adopted thresholds. Adiong agreed to study the fuel proposal and said an electricity study was already underway.

On LPG excise-tax suspension, Adiong said the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) had recommended the measure to the President and DOF had signed it. Asked whether aviation fuel was included, he said it was not. Dagooc then asked what agency would monitor whether a tax suspension reduced pump prices and the costs of goods and services, so that businesses would not retain the savings while government lost revenue. Adiong identified the Department of Energy (DOE) and described its role in advising DOF about fuel-price conditions. Dagooc questioned whether DOE’s small staff could monitor pass-through and asked DOF to assess its capacity or devise another mechanism. Adiong said DOE was monitoring ongoing adjustments, then made an unclear correction referring to DOF; the final allocation of monitoring responsibility was not resolved in the exchange.

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### Rep. Antonio L. Tinio

Representative Antonio L. Tinio presented national-government debt rising from ₱6.09 trillion in 2016 to a projected ₱19.77 trillion in 2026 and ₱21.48 trillion in 2027. He said annual additions included ₱440 billion in 2019, ₱2.06 trillion in 2020, a low of ₱1.2 trillion in 2023, and projections of ₱2.06 trillion in 2026 and ₱1.7 trillion in 2027. He also compared combined principal amortization and interest payments: ₱790 billion in 2016, ₱2.02 trillion in 2024 and a projected ₱2.7 trillion in 2027.

Sponsor Representative Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong said rising debt reflected a growing economy and higher spending needs, and argued it was not necessarily a cause for concern. He cited a 56.4% debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio against a 70% benchmark he attributed to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, saying the Philippines remained below it. Tinio countered that second-quarter growth was 2.3% against a government target of 4–6%, and cited 2026 growth estimates of 5.1% for Singapore, 5.3% for Indonesia and 8.2% for Vietnam. Adiong pointed to the Philippines’ dependence on imported petroleum, international oil prices outside its control, inflation and related costs as factors affecting growth.

Tinio said the national-government deficit rose from ₱353 billion in 2016 to ₱1.6 trillion in 2026. He described the deficit as 13% of the expenditure program in 2016 and 24% in 2026. For 2027, he cited a projected ₱1.69-trillion deficit and 24% of proposed expenditures.

For 2023–2027, including the 2027 projection, Tinio calculated ₱8.06 trillion in additions to outstanding debt and ₱7.95 trillion in combined national-government deficits, then attributed ₱4.98 trillion of the deficits to what he called hard- and soft-pork spending. He grouped flood-control and other infrastructure with assistance programs, alleging that debt thus supported corrupt or ineffective flood-control projects and patronage-based aid that could influence elections and strengthen political dynasties. Adiong said those programs were not the only spending financed, noted investigations were ongoing, and emphasized that the government needed resources for necessary expenditures. He argued the deficit-to-GDP trend was falling, citing 7.3% when the administration took office, then 6.2%, 5.7% in 2023, 5.6% in 2024, 5.4% in 2025 and 5.1% in 2026.

Tinio closed by arguing that economic growth should be judged by durable job creation and long-term gains in livelihoods and poverty reduction, particularly through agriculture and industry. He contrasted this with what he called “junk growth”: debt-funded flood-control and other infrastructure he alleged produced corruption rather than public benefit, and expanded assistance that offered short-term relief without lasting jobs or livelihoods. He argued that institutional health and education funding could build facilities and improve service quality, while patronage-based scholarship or aid left beneficiaries indebted to politicians. The exchange ended after Tinio’s critique without a substantive response to this closing argument.

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### Rep. Presley C. De Jesus

Rep. Presley C. De Jesus, representing cooperatives, asked why small cooperatives struggle to obtain or renew a Certificate of Tax Exemption (CTE), and whether the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) should register each cooperative member by Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). He described remote farming cooperatives with members who may have difficulty completing individual paperwork and urged the BIR to accommodate them while retaining the TIN as an identifier.

Department of Finance (DOF) sponsor Rep. Ziaur-Rahman Alonto Adiong said the BIR had previously required member TINs but was adjusting its practice and no longer strictly enforcing individual submission. The BIR could deal directly with cooperatives, while balancing this accommodation with statutory requirements. De Jesus asked the BIR to review the process; Adiong committed to an adjustment.

De Jesus asked whether the FY2027 fuel-excise forecast used a price of ₱60 or ₱70 per liter, noting that he described the current price as ₱100 per liter and asking whether the increase produced a windfall or could trigger excise-tax suspension. Adiong answered that the excess-tax calculation depends on petroleum volume rather than price.

On petroleum value-added tax (VAT) collections, Adiong said they fund identified subsidies and assistance under the government uplift program as global supply remained unstable and commodity prices rose. De Jesus raised the potential relief for transport operators and workers; the exchange did not establish a particular excise-suspension trigger or a price-based windfall calculation.

De Jesus relayed cockpit operators’ complaints that machines were seized and penalties imposed before they understood the registration rules, and asked whether betting machines were point-of-sale (POS) or special-purpose machines. Adiong said betting machines required registration; unregistered machines had been collected and would be returned if registered. He said the law covered POS and special-purpose machines without an exception.

De Jesus asked whether the 18% amusement-tax rate applied to total bets, gross sales or net income, and argued that applying it to cockpit gross sales under an old tax-code provision could burden the wider poultry and feed industry and its workers. Adiong said the BIR was complying with the law but had met cockpit operators and formed a technical working group (TWG) to address complaints. De Jesus disputed the sponsor’s characterization of enforcement as visits, describing raids and asking for clear guidelines; Adiong said the BIR visited operators and would coordinate with them. De Jesus also said he had filed a resolution calling on the BIR.

De Jesus moved to terminate sponsorship and debate on the DOF budget, including attached agencies and corporations; the Majority joined. Presiding Deputy Speaker Janette L. Garin announced the joint motion and approved it without objection, terminating interpellation.

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## Philippine Statistics Authority

### Sponsorship

Rep. Bella Vanessa B. Suansing, vice chairperson of the Committee on Appropriations, was recognized as sponsor of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) budget and said she was ready to answer questions.

[05:46:08 · asr-006301](https://tordecilla.github.io/budget-hearings-2026/records/66/#asr-006301) · [05:46:15 · asr-006302](https://tordecilla.github.io/budget-hearings-2026/records/66/#asr-006302) · [05:46:18 · asr-006303](https://tordecilla.github.io/budget-hearings-2026/records/66/#asr-006303) · [05:46:31 · asr-006308](https://tordecilla.github.io/budget-hearings-2026/records/66/#asr-006308)

### Rep. Presley C. De Jesus

Rep. Presley C. De Jesus recalled that the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) budget had been suspended the previous week pending documents. He said the documents had been submitted but were still incomplete, and asked that the complete materials be provided.

Noting that no minority members wished to interpellate, De Jesus moved to terminate sponsorship and debate on the PSA budget. The majority joined the motion, and Deputy Speaker Janette L. Garin put it to the House. Hearing no objection, she declared it carried and terminated interpellation.

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## Lump-sum funds

### Sponsorship

Chairperson of the Committee on Appropriations Representative Mikaela Angela B. Suansing was recognized to begin sponsorship of House Bill No. 10858. She said she was ready to answer questions about the lump-sum funds.

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### Rep. Sergio C. Dagooc

Rep. Sergio C. Dagooc recorded his continuing opposition to lump-sum allocations, saying he had always opposed them. His brief manifestation came during the lump-sum funds discussion.

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### Rep. Edgar R. Erice

Rep. Edgar R. Erice compared reported Financial Assistance to Local Government Units (FALGU) releases from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) website for 2025 and 2026, arguing that wealthier regions and local governments repeatedly received the largest amounts while poorer places received the least. For 2025, he cited the National Capital Region (NCR) at ₱1.653 billion and Region V at nearly ₱1.5 billion, while describing BARM and Region XIII among the poorest and lowest-receiving regions. For 2026, he cited Region IV-A at ₱5.365 billion, NCR at more than ₱4 billion and Region III at ₱3.774 billion, and said Regions XIII, XI and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) were among the lowest. At province level, he cited Sulu at ₱1,251,000,000 (7.94%) in 2025, Cebu at over ₱897,000,000, and Batangas at ₱1.8 billion in 2026. He also said more than 300 municipalities received no FALGU assistance in 2026 and that the poorest municipalities remained among the lowest recipients. He also questioned large allocations to Quezon City despite its substantial own-source revenue.

The sponsor, Rep. Mikaela Angela B. Suansing, replied that about half of the FALGU funds released in 2026 related to rice distribution and said that allocation was population-based. Erice separately criticized the ₱22 billion rice distribution in 2026, questioned its economic effect and the monitoring capacity of the Commission on Audit (COA) and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), and alleged that much could be stolen.

Erice asked who decides which local government unit (LGU), project and amount receives support. Suansing said the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) is governed by the special provision Congress approves in the General Appropriations Act (GAA), while DBM receives LGU requests, evaluates them and processes releases. When the GAA and House General Appropriations Bill (H-GAB) are approved, the recipients and amounts are not yet identified: all LGUs may apply, but grants depend on DBM evaluation. The GAA does specify eligible project types. Suansing said these LGSF streams can augment needs that national agencies do not fully cover, and cited the Growth Equity Fund (GEF) as restricted to fourth- and fifth-class municipalities. She confirmed DBM develops the evaluation criteria after GAA approval.

Erice argued that recipients, projects, amounts and a mathematical allocation formula are not set by Congress before enactment, leaving the executive to choose applications under post-enactment criteria; he questioned whether this is implementation or a new appropriation decision and whether Congress retains its power of the purse. He also questioned how a President could veto a particular project if the bill did not identify its recipient, project and amount. Suansing said DBM follows the GAA criteria and explained that the data Erice showed covered FALGU, while other LGSF streams have different distributions: Region XIII ranked low in FALGU but high in the Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP) and GEF, whereas NCR’s high FALGU allocation was not matched by other LGSF funds. She said 2025 releases depended on LGU requests. She agreed that Congress could require its approval of the criteria and guidelines in the 2027 GAA and offered to work with Erice on a special provision; this was a proposal for future drafting, not an adopted amendment.

Erice asked whether a poverty-first, poorest-LGU-first or basic-services-first rule prevents DBM from choosing an affluent city over a poorer municipality. Suansing replied that no current law or provision particularly bars such a choice and that all LGUs qualify to apply for LGSF grants. Erice requested records for 2025 and 2026 showing all applicants, approvals and rejections, scoring and ranking procedures, approved amounts and rejection reasons. Suansing said DBM agreed to provide the request and approval/disapproval lists; it would check whether reasons for each rejected item were available at the relevant level of its records.

Erice questioned whether congressional oversight can substitute for setting appropriations and standards in the bill. Suansing said there were no LGSF-specific reporting requirements in the prior GAAs, although DBM submits quarterly aggregate reports on obligations, disbursements and related totals. She said DBM was open to adding reporting requirements in the 2027 GAA and reiterated that Congress could require approval of guidelines and criteria to protect its power of the purse and oversight. These were options for a future GAA, not measures adopted in this exchange.

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### Rep. Tobias "Toby" M. Tiangco

Representative Tobias “Toby” M. Tiangco recalled that, after implementation of 2025 budget insertions was halted, he compared Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) allocations by district. He said the average was about ₱2 billion per district, while some districts had ₱20 billion, and cited ₱5.96 billion in insertions for TINGOG. He said publishing allocations by district would make unusually large totals visible and help clarify which projects came from legislators or party-list representatives; he framed this as a transparency concern, not an objection to party-list representatives requesting projects for their constituencies.

Tiangco described two Navotas projects of ₱3 million each, both titled as completion of multipurpose facilities even though, he said, the buildings had not been constructed. He called them unimplementable and said they were absent from the National Expenditure Program (NEP), entered later in the House process, and unknown to the district and city engineers; he added that barangay officials either did not know of one project or wanted a different project. When he asked whether party-list project requests could be routed through DPWH for review, Appropriations Chairperson Representative Mikaela Angela B. Suansing said projects in the 2027 House General Appropriations Bill (HGAB) and eventual General Appropriations Act (GAA) would follow Department of Budget and Management (DBM) budget-call requirements. She listed documentary requirements, including a BP-202, Certificate of Implementability, actual program of works, Regional or Municipal Development Council approvals, and geotagging with coordinates, and said the same standards would apply to projects in the HGAB and GAA. Suansing also answered yes when Tiangco sought assurance against party-list insertions of the large amounts he had described.

Tiangco asked that the 2026 GAA and incoming 2027 GAA allocations be published by government agency and legislative district, as required by the House website’s stated reporting provision. Suansing agreed to comply with the GAA provisions and said the same transparency and accountability advocacy was acceptable. Tiangco emphasized that party-list requests were legitimate when projects were needed and passed DPWH review, and asked that requests and allocations be identified openly rather than attributed to a district legislator who did not propose them. When asked whether all party lists requested infrastructure projects, Suansing said she could not identify any that did not, offhand. Tiangco tentatively recalled that Gabriela, ACT Teachers and Kabataan might be among three groups without requests; he framed these as his recollection, not a verified registry, and reaffirmed that he was asking for transparency about requests and projects.

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### Rep. Percival "Perci" Cendaña

Rep. Percival Cendaña asked about a proposed increase in the personal economic relief allowance (PERA) for public-sector employees. Appropriations sponsor Rep. Mikaela Angela B. Suansing said the FY2027 disbursement amount remained under evaluation by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). She corrected the lump-sum amount under the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund (MPBF) from ₱11.973 billion to ₱11.793 billion, which she said would fund a ₱500 monthly increase in PERA, from ₱2,000 to ₱2,500.

Cendaña called the increase inadequate, saying it amounts to about ₱16.67 per day, and urged passage of House Bill 3874 to raise PERA to ₱8,000. Suansing expressed support for an increase in PERA and said she hoped it could be implemented soon.

Cendaña compared the FY2026 Calamity Fund’s ₱31 billion allocation in the National Expenditure Program (NEP) with ₱39.8 billion in the General Appropriations Act (GAA), and cited ₱14.02 billion, or 35%, released as of August 2026 despite successive floods, an earthquake and rising fuel prices. Suansing explained that National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (NDRRMF) releases follow recommendations from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) to the President, with Department of Budget and Management (DBM) release after approval. Of a ₱15.33 billion Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Assistance Program for local government units, no funds had been released because the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) had not submitted a recommendation to the President; in the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Program (NDRRMP), ₱17 billion of ₱23 billion had been released.

For FY2027, Cendaña questioned the ₱45.67 billion Calamity Fund request amid an expected very strong El Niño, citing a possible 700,000-metric-ton reduction in rice harvest and ₱57.78 billion in agricultural losses during the 2023–24 El Niño. Suansing said the total reflected anticipated disaster and climate shocks and utilization. She described the NDRRMP increasing from ₱23.49 billion in the 2026 GAA to ₱30 billion in the 2027 NEP, the People's Survival Fund remaining level, replenishment of the Quick Response Fund (QRF), and the Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Assistance Program decreasing from ₱15.3 billion to ₱14.67 billion, a reduction of ₱600 million. She said that if the fund proved insufficient, the government could use the contingent fund, suitable programs in other agencies, or request agencies to return savings to the National Treasury for reallocation. She also said she would try to reinforce the Department of Agriculture budget for fertilizer assistance.

Cendaña asked whether the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) could be itemized in the FY2027 GAA by local government unit and project. Suansing said the fund is request-driven and DBM cannot identify future requesting LGUs when the General Appropriations Act is being prepared, so it cannot be line-itemized at that stage. In response to Cendaña’s comparison with pork-barrel allocations, she attributed to the Supreme Court’s Belgica ruling the conclusion that LGSF is a valid appropriation for local government support and is not pork barrel.

Cendaña sought disclosure of the evaluation rules and scorecard. Suansing offered to share the DBM scorecard and identified its high-level criteria: good financial housekeeping, Local Development Council functionality, Subaybayan reporting compliance, financial and physical accomplishment, and additional criteria. On the separate question of when projects may be declared abandoned for purposes of savings, Suansing said agencies set their own criteria; DBM receives projects already designated abandoned and could not answer for each agency. She offered to facilitate discussion with the agencies about their criteria.

Cendaña questioned FY2026 support to foreign-assisted projects: the GAA provided ₱97.3 billion, while releases stood at ₱120.1 billion as of August. Suansing later confirmed that the September report showed ₱129 billion. She explained that special provision 8 in the FY2026 Unprogrammed Appropriations (UA) section allowed modification of purposes; the additional release came from the revised Armed Forces of the Philippines modernization program. Cendaña cited this as an example of his concern about executive discretion over lump-sum appropriations.

Cendaña also questioned setting aside more than ₱57 billion in FY2027 UA for a possible return of funds to the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC), citing his understanding that a Supreme Court ruling had found an earlier transfer of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) funds unconstitutional. Suansing said the executive had set aside ₱57 billion in case a court decision required repayment to PDIC. She said government compliance would require both a court decision and satisfaction of the UA release trigger—excess revenues.

Cendaña requested a complete record of each UA release from 2022 through the latest available period, with date, amount, recipient agency, specific program and UACS code, and asked that this become standard reporting. Suansing said DBM would provide its latest available data. She added that the FY2027 NEP UA level was the lowest relative to the total expenditure program in a long time, explaining that DBM puts programmable, identifiable items in programmed appropriations rather than UA.

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### Rep. Iris Marie Demesa Montes

Representative Iris Marie Demesa Montes said she had repeatedly asked the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to calculate what was due to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) under the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act. Citing figures from PhilHealth, she described ₱199 billion in collections-based shortfalls from sin taxes, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), including ₱133 billion in sin-tax earmarks and ₱62.22 billion from PAGCOR and PCSO, and separately cited a ₱112 billion variance between the General Appropriations Act (GAA) and actual releases. She put the resulting PhilHealth shortfall at ₱311.4 billion, later referring to it as about ₱312 billion. These were Montes’s figures, not a reconciled DBM determination. After a suspension, Appropriations Chairperson Representative Mikaela Angela B. Suansing relayed DBM’s recognized variance as ₱143.878 billion for the Department of Health (DOH), excluding PAGCOR and PCSO contributions; the exchange leaves the figures’ differing scope unresolved.

Montes asked DBM, the Department of Health (DOH) and PhilHealth to reconcile their figures, arguing that DBM should disaggregate collections to determine the UHC share. She cited the Supreme Court ruling on the return of ₱60 billion in PhilHealth funds and quoted its view that sin-tax earmarks leave no discretion to redirect the specified allocations; she argued that the proposed 2027 budget still did not provide PhilHealth its proper share. Suansing agreed to a discussion involving PhilHealth, Montes, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTR) and DBM, attributing delays in releasing earmarked funds to a lag in BTR certification. No reconciled figure or adopted appropriation was announced in this exchange.

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### Rep. Sarah Jane I. Elago

Rep. Sarah Jane I. Elago said the Growth Equity Fund (GEF), under the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF), is intended to address marginalization, unequal development, poverty and disparities in local government fiscal capacity, citing the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) description and the Executive Order on Full Devolution. She listed the GEF amounts by year as ₱1.25 billion in 2022, ₱1 billion in 2023, no allocation in 2024, ₱700 million in 2025, ₱11.3 billion in 2026 and ₱10.3 billion in the FY2027 proposal. She asked how many local government units (LGUs) had benefited and requested annual counts. Rep. Mikaela Angela B. Suansing first said the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) would obtain 2022 data, then corrected herself and gave a final 2022 count of 430 LGUs; she reported 170 LGUs in 2023, 244 in 2025 and 875 in 2026, with no 2024 beneficiary count stated.

Elago asked why the 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA) did not identify GEF beneficiaries and projects in advance, including through the municipalities’ devolution transition plans. Suansing confirmed that the 2026 GAA had no annex listing beneficiaries, but said a master list of qualified municipalities, cities and provinces exists in theory, identifying the fourth- and fifth-class LGUs eligible for GEF. The amounts each LGU would receive, however, are not specified in the GAA and are determined after enactment.

After checking with DBM, Suansing said the Executive has a list at the National Expenditure Program (NEP) stage that serves as the basis for proposed GEF amounts, although it is not attached to the NEP; she said it could technically be attached to the NEP and later the GAA. In response to Elago’s reference to about ₱10 billion for the next year, Suansing described allocation amounts already determined by LGU class, including ₱51.5 million for Batanes and a total of ₱463.5 million for nine fourth- and fifth-class cities, with an amount designated per LGU. She distinguished those allocations from the projects: which projects receive funding still depends on LGU requests, within the guidelines and eligible-project menu. The exchange did not establish that the pre-existing list itemized each requested project in the GAA.

Elago noted that guidelines had been issued after GAA enactment in 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026, and said the proposed 2027 GAA still made releases subject to guidelines to be issued by DBM in coordination with DILG, the Department of Finance (DOF), the Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev), and other agencies. She warned that leaving the fund lump-sum and discretionary without clear guidelines could invite misuse or abuse. Suansing agreed that the current special provision only makes release subject to guidelines issued by DBM with the named agencies, and said DBM was open to refining the provision, adding rules and requiring congressional approval of the guidelines. Those were possible future changes, not an adopted itemization or amendment.

Elago argued that eligible LGUs and allocation bases could be identified before the GAA, and called for itemization, advance standards and accountability. She requested a report on GEF responsibility and accountability guidelines; Suansing agreed to comply and share it.

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### Rep. Renee Louise M. Co

Rep. Renee Louise M. Co asked about the Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP) of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), funded under the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF). She noted that recipient counts and per-barangay grants varied from year to year: ₱20 million each for 822 barangays in 2021; ₱4 million each for 1,406 in 2022; ₱6.6 million each for 959 in 2023; ₱2.5 million each for 864 in 2024 and 780 in 2025; ₱10 million each for 808 in 2026; and ₱5 million each for 1,948 in the FY2027 proposal. Appropriations sponsor Rep. Mikaela Angela B. Suansing said the determination of cleared barangays comes from NTF-ELCAC, which submits the list to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). A qualified barangay can receive SBDP only once, with eligibility depending on when NTF-ELCAC submits its name to DBM. Suansing agreed that per-barangay amounts vary with the annual SBDP allocation and the number of barangays designated as eligible.

Co questioned whether DBM could definitively confirm there were no duplicate recipients. Suansing said staff believed none had received SBDP twice and that Compass data on the DBM website could help verify. She acknowledged DBM relies on NTF-ELCAC’s list and its certification that there are no duplicates, agreed DBM should conduct a separate check, and committed that it would begin checking for duplicates going forward. Co also asked for records explaining the checks performed by DBM, NTF-ELCAC and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

Co criticized the program’s variable grants and eligibility process, arguing that the amounts may not match each barangay’s needs and that services could instead be funded through agency line items. She also raised concerns about the program’s clearance process and reports of surveillance and harassment, and argued that development funding should not come at the cost of people’s rights and freedoms. She closed by requesting a report on the agencies’ attestations and duplicate-prevention methods, then yielded her time.

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### Rep. Antonio L. Tinio

Representative Antonio L. Tinio questioned the rapid growth of the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF), particularly its financial assistance to local government units (FALGU). He cited appropriations of ₱22.99 billion in 2025 and ₱57.8 billion in 2026, and said the FALGU component rose from ₱18.9 billion to ₱37.4 billion; he separately described it as a ₱37.49 billion component. He argued that the increase and large individual capital projects raised equity and oversight concerns. Appropriations Chairperson Representative Mikaela Angela B. Suansing said the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) sets criteria, receives requests, evaluates them using a scorecard—including financial housekeeping, local development council functionality, reporting compliance, and financial and physical accomplishment—and handles approval and release. Suansing confirmed that current guidelines set no cap on capital-outlay projects. After conferring with DBM, she said a cap could be explored for guidelines in 2027 and later years because a single large request could consume a substantial share of FALGU’s finite allocation. Tinio later cited Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) data showing FALGU utilization as low as 7% for 2025, and argued low utilization should weigh against further increases.

Tinio challenged the sponsor’s account that the President has no role in LGSF requests, evaluation, approval or release. He cited Section 35 of Executive Order 292, which he said requires a President-approved special budget for expenditures from lump-sum appropriations, and argued that the GAA special provision did not expressly delegate approval to DBM. Suansing said the GAA’s special provision authorizes DBM to administer the funds and cited Section 47 of the Administrative Code as also assigning DBM administration. Tinio disputed that administration alone establishes approval authority. Suansing relayed DBM’s position that approval currently lies with DBM, while submitting to Congress’s judgment; she said Congress could state expressly in the 2027 GAA special provision whether approval rests with the President or DBM. Tinio said this proposal could address 2027 but not prior years. The exchange records the disagreement and a possible future clarification, not a resolved legal determination.

Tinio turned to the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund (MPBF), which he described as a source for salary and benefit increases, allowances and additional plantilla items. He recalled a 78% cut to MPBF in 2024 and said cuts in 2026 helped increase LGSF, linking that history to his request to protect employee benefits. He said the proposed 2027 MPBF was ₱55.8 billion, including ₱21.8 billion for performance-based incentives, and characterized ₱11.79 billion as the increase for the Personal Economic Relief Allowance (PERA). He said the ₱2,000 monthly PERA had remained unchanged since 2009 and that the proposed increase would translate to ₱500 more per employee per month; he urged Congress and DBM to at least double or further increase the provision. Suansing said she could not unilaterally guarantee the outcome because amendments must go through the Budget Amendments Review Subcommittee (BARC). Personally, she supported increasing PERA and said she would try to protect MPBF from reductions, especially large cuts, while Tinio said the response did not fully assure him. He closed by citing DILG-reported LGSF disbursement/utilization figures as low as 7% for 2025 and 2026 and argued for reducing FALGU to help fund employee benefits. Suansing expressed support for the PERA increase, but the exchange did not settle an amendment. Tinio moved to terminate interpellation on the lump-sum funds; Deputy Speaker Mercedes K. Alvarez declared the interpellation period terminated.

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## General Appropriations Bill: whole-bill proceedings

### Minority Leader Marcelino C. Libanan

In his whole-bill speech contra, Minority Leader Marcelino C. Libanan synthesized earlier budget deliberations and colleagues’ concerns. He said the FY2027 proposed national budget was ₱7.2 trillion against about ₱5.2 trillion in revenue. He cited ₱1.114 trillion in interest payments and ₱1.59 trillion in principal amortization, clarifying that principal is a financing transaction outside the expenditure program, though still a Treasury obligation. Together, debt service was about ₱2.7 trillion, or roughly ₱52 per ₱100 of projected revenue. After mandatory obligations, he put the remaining discretionary fiscal space at about ₱2.6 trillion, 36% of the budget.

He described a difficult outlook: GDP growth of 2.3% in 2026 Q2 after 2.8% in Q1, a 2.4% industry contraction, gross capital formation down 9.2%, and August inflation of 6.1%, rising to 8.2% for the bottom 30% of households. He cited the medium-term deficit path from 5.4% of GDP in 2026 to 3.5% by 2030, while revenue stayed around 15–16% of GDP and disbursements declined from 21.2% to 19.1%. He argued that restraint should remove waste but protect productive investments and households.

On education, he compared the proposed Department of Education (DepEd) budget of ₱976 billion with ₱1.114 trillion in interest payments, a ₱138 billion difference. He cited education spending of 3.99% of GDP against 4.36% in the FY2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA), alongside a continuing classroom shortage. He also recapped proposals to restore social and education support: the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) allocation was moving from about ₱113 billion to ₱99.08 billion, Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) from ₱63.9 billion to ₱33.29 billion, and supplementary feeding from ₱9.56 billion to ₱6.36 billion. Representative Renee Louise M. Co raised the proposed ₱7.68 billion decrease for state universities and colleges and free-higher-education funding gaps of ₱4.97 billion for FY2025–26 and ₱2.77 billion for FY2027.

Representative Antonio L. Tinio called for a meaningful increase in the ₱2,000 monthly personal economic relief allowance (PERA), including a proposed ₱500 increase and doubling the ₱11.79 billion allocation for about 2 million public employees. Representative Elijah Rumbaoa San Fernando raised unresolved wage policy: House Bill 8081, the National Minimum Wage Act, remained pending after committee reporting, and National Capital Region Wage Order No. 27 affected more than 1.1 million workers with an ₱85 increase. On health, Representative Iris Marie Demesa Montes called for the full ₱244 billion proposed 2027 allocation for the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). Representative Dadah Kiram Ismula separately compared roughly ₱300 billion proposed with about ₱74 billion provided for FY2027 and cited an estimated 58% out-of-pocket share for catastrophic illness. Ismula also cited about ₱7 billion needed to complete Marawi compensation against ₱1 billion provided for FY2027 before the board’s mandate ended in 2028. Representative Jernie Jett V. Nisay sought retention of ₱2.535 billion for Department of Health (DOH) health promotion and grassroots sports. Representative Sarah Jane I. Elago raised early-childhood support, farm and fisherfolk subsidies and solo-parent assistance. Representative Roberto Nazal called to restore ₱1.5 billion for the 3Ps program’s affordable enterprise capital.

Libanan linked service restoration to connectivity and energy access. Representative Percival “Perci” Cendaña called for restoring EDSA Carousel service-contracting and fuel-subsidy funding for public-utility-vehicle commuters, drivers and operators. Representative Presley C. De Jesus sought stronger electrification. The National Electrification Administration (NEA) proposal declined from ₱10.134 billion in FY2026 to ₱6.486 billion in FY2027; missionary electrification was allocated ₱2.001 billion. De Jesus called for support to electric cooperatives and rehabilitation of aging distribution systems. Representative Sergio C. Dagooc raised supply shortages, reserve gaps, outages and transmission congestion, concerns about off-grid National Power Corporation Small Power Utilities Group operations, and proposed a temporary, rule-based value-added tax (VAT) shock absorber during extraordinary electricity and fuel price increases.

He summarized concerns about the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS): its ₱5.062 billion proposal placed ₱4.92 billion, or 97%, in the central office, while 16 regions and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) shared ₱130 million. Representative JC M. Abalos also said that 59,462 families on the 4Ps Set 12 waitlist remained unmatched with CBMS data, some since 2023. Representative Audrey Kay T. Zubiri cited the Sugarcane Industry Development Act’s ₱2 billion annual funding mandate against about ₱1.020 billion appropriated in the FY2026 GAA.

Representative Jesus “Bong” C. Suntay stressed that major transport spending must deliver results, citing ₱191.285 billion proposed for the Metro Manila Subway and North–South Commuter Railway. Libanan, referring explicitly to his prior interpellation on the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) budget, he said the Sorsogon–Samar Link Bridge feasibility study had ₱130 million in government funding and about ₱500 million expected from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), meeting an estimated ₱650 million requirement. Bidding was expected in November, the study to take about a year, detailed engineering was targeted for 2028, and civil-works bidding for 2028 or early 2029. Libanan cited a projected 42% economic rate of return and development-partner interest.

He also recapped ₱350 million for the Southern Leyte–Surigao feasibility study, with DPWH negotiating additional ADB support; the proposed Maasin–Lapinig Island–Ubay, Getafe–Cordova and Santander–Sibulan links; the Bohol–Cebu link, already studied and prioritized; and ₱80 million in the FY2026 GAA for the Camarines Sur–Catanduanes Friendship Bridge feasibility study. He urged rigorous feasibility review and follow-through on these commitments, arguing that bridges and transport links could shorten trips, lower logistics costs, improve emergency response and connect remote communities. These were funding and study plans he reported from earlier deliberations, not completed construction.

Libanan argued that the national budget’s regional distribution should reflect population, poverty, infrastructure gaps, disaster exposure and geographic isolation, noting that Visayas and Mindanao had historically received budget shares below their shares of the poor. He welcomed the reduced unprogrammed-appropriations level, which stood at about ₱112 billion or 1.6% of the expenditure program, while calling for greater transparency about the project, location, beneficiary and purpose of program appropriations and limits on post-enactment discretion. He said an appropriation is not an accomplishment and called for scrutiny of implementation and results.

He recapped concerns about local-government support: after the General Appropriations Act is approved, the recipient local government, amount and funded project may still be unknown. While recognizing that the Supreme Court had upheld the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) when its purpose and implementation standards are sufficiently defined, he urged Congress to ensure the GAA itself provides clear, objective standards and preserves the legislature’s power of appropriation. He also argued that unspent funds should not automatically become savings, and that declarations of savings require legal basis, documentation and accountability.

On national defense, Libanan referred to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) assessment that foreign vessels off Eastern Samar followed a normal shipping route and posed no threat, but said the episode reinforced the need to strengthen the eastern seaboard. He called for maritime-domain awareness, radar and surveillance, naval and air capacity, and strategic facilities along the Pacific coast, alongside the AFP’s broader archipelagic defense posture. He closed with the minority’s continuing reservations about fiscal priorities, transparency and implementation.

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### Rep. Antonio L. Tinio

Rep. Antonio L. Tinio framed the 2027 budget debate around who benefits, arguing that the national budget sustains privatization, deregulation and liberalization. He said these policies concentrated essential services and infrastructure in a few conglomerates and brought high costs, while small businesses, low-income professionals and workers faced expensive electricity and credit, import competition, low pay or overtaxation. He linked unemployment and underemployment to neglected agriculture and the lack of domestic industry, arguing that service-sector jobs alone cannot employ the country’s people. In his view, a growing safety net of ayuda and politicized social services reflects economic failure rather than broad-based prosperity.

Tinio cited Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) capital-outlay figures to argue that flood control grew from 20% in 2016 to about ₱357 billion, or 36.6% of DPWH capital outlay, by 2024; he added that more than ₱1 out of every ₱3 spent on public works under the administration went to flood control. He claimed flooding had worsened and blamed ghost, unfinished, substandard and overpriced projects allocated at politicians’ discretion.

He said appropriations for Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations (AICS) rose 92-fold from 2016 to 2026, Medical Assistance to Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients (MAIFIP) 36-fold, and Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) sevenfold, with the largest growth in the administration’s first three years. He criticized this expansion as turning education, health and crisis aid into political favors and election tools, and linked it to what he described as debt-fueled patronage. He claimed the administration added ₱8.06 trillion to national debt and that ₱2.7 trillion would be paid in 2027.

On the 2027 proposal, Tinio said ₱107 billion had been restored for flood control and remained politically directed rather than based on scientific plans; he called it wasteful if approved. He said DPWH had indicated it would propose a ₱20 billion institutional item in its own budget, which he characterized as the old allocable system under a new name for congressionally pursued projects. He supported publishing which district and party-list representatives and senators proposed each project in the General Appropriations Act. He also cited a proposed ₱58.5 billion for the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) alongside a 7% disbursement rate for its financial-assistance-to-LGUs component, arguing that this remained presidential pork released at Malacañang’s discretion to local governments it chose.

Tinio said core funding for education programs and teachers, hospitals and health workers, social welfare, and labor protection had been cut while AICS, MAIFIP and TUPAD remained the main channels for assistance. His demands were to reject pork and ineffective flood control, remove the proposed ₱107 billion and redirect it to increased funding, stop the LGSF as presidential pork, and eliminate confidential and intelligence funds he valued at more than ₱10 billion. He called for restoring and increasing education, health, housing and social-welfare funding, including more classrooms and teacher positions, hospital beds and health workers, with job-order and contract-of-service health staff regularized. He sought ₱5.3 billion for the 2026–2027 free higher-education deficiency and production subsidies of ₱50,000 for farmers and ₱30,000 for fishers; he did not specify the unit basis for those subsidy amounts.

He said two million government employees had gone 17 years without an increase in the personal economic relief allowance (PERA) and were offered ₱500 a month; he called that insufficient, demanded at least double the appropriation and a larger increase, and sought regularization for government job-order and contract-of-service workers.

Tinio argued that Pax Silica, the Critical Minerals Memorandum of Understanding, and expanded United States military presence under the Mutual Defense Treaty, Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) tied Philippine security to U.S. interests and preparation for war, making the country a base, launch point and target. He called for rejecting Pax Silica and U.S. military presence, and for independent industrialization that builds domestic industries and jobs alongside an independent defense policy serving Filipino interests. He closed by arguing that even if his demands were met, the budget’s fundamental policy direction would remain unchanged. These were his requests and positions; no amendment or funding change was adopted in this manifestation.

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