As the Second Regular Session resumes today, the House of Representatives will concentrate on passing the proposed 2024 General Appropriations Act and measures to carry out Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s promise to lower the price of rice to P20 per kilo.
AS the Second Regular Session resumes today , the House of Representatives will concentrate on passing the proposed 2024 General Appropriations Act and measures to carry out President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s promise to lower the price of rice to P20 per kilo, as well as the remaining priority bills.
Under the Constitution, the President has 30 days after the Sona to submit his budget proposal to Congress. However, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III said the Filipino people deserve the “unfiltered truth” from Marcos’s second Sona, adding, “it is my hope that he will discuss the real situation of the Filipino People at the household level.”
Still, he added: “But I think he is doing good. He got the best and the brightest” people in key agencies.
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