DBM submits P6.3-trillion 2025 National Expenditure Program to Senate

Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman on Monday submitted the P6.352-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) to the Senate. 

The NEP details the government's proposed programs and is submitted to Congress to aid it in crafting the proposed national budget for the next fiscal year. The submission of the 2025 NEP came a week after the third State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, well within the Constitution's requirement that it be submitted within 30 days after the SONA.

Senators present during the submission were Senate Deputy Majority Leader JV Ejercito, Senate accounts committee chairman Alan Peter Cayetano, Senate finance committee chair Grace Poe, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada, and Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino.

The Senate Finance Committee is tasked to scrutinize the proposed budget of every government agency.

The Department of Budget and Management earlier said the allocation of the Confidential and Intelligence Fund in the 2025 proposed budget was reduced to P10.2 billion compared to the 2024 budget's P12 billion.

The Presidential Communications Office earlier said the proposed national budget would support the key pillars of the administration’s Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028.

Under the proposed NEP, the agencies getting the biggest share of the government appropriations include education (Department of Education, state universities and colleges, Commission on Higher Education, and Technical Education and Skills Authority), public works (Department of Public Works and Highways), health (PhilHealth), interior and local government (Department of the Interior and Local Government), and defense (Department of National Defense). — BM, GMA Integrated News