Quimbo: Enrolled bill of P6.325-trillion 2025 budget has no blanks

The enrolled bill providing for the P6.325-trillion national budget for 2025 has no blanks and is publicly available for verification, Acting House appropriations panel chairperson Stella Quimbo on Monday.
Quimbo made the statement after former executive secretary Vic Rodriguez asked members of the House to show the enrolled bill which has been the basis of the 2025 General Appropriations Act or the 2025 National Budget law signed by President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. given that the Bicameral Conference Committee report on the 2025 national budget had certain blank entries.
“The enrolled bill is in the Archives of the House. Sana po ay makabisita po kayo doon para kayo na po ang mag-validate na nandoon po ang enrolled bill. Publicly available po. Anyone can visit the archives para kayo na po ang mag-confirm na naroon po ang enrolled bill. And our review of the general appropriations bill at ibabangga po ninyo ang Bicam [Bicameral Conference Committee] report, makikita po ninyo na wala pong blangko sa enrolled bill,” Quimbo told reporters.
(I hope you can visit our Archives section so you can validate for yourself, the enrolled bill is there. It is publicly available. Anyone can visit our Archives section to confirm that the enrolled bill is there, and if you compare it with the Bicam report, you will see that the enrolled bill has no blanks.)
Quimbo then reiterated that blanks in the Bicam report were sub-items, which total amounts were both indicated both in the Bicam report and the enrolled bill.
“All of those amounts [of sub-items] were predetermined by the Bicam members at the time of signing. And so, as a result, what happened was [entering] the necessary corrections, and this was reported [reflected] in the enrolled bill,” she said.
Rodriguez is among the individuals who filed a petition questioning the legality of the 2025 national budget before the Supreme Court.
Marcos has since said that the 2025 National Budget Law is legal and had no blanks, and that former president Rodrigo Duterte and others who were harping on supposed blank items in the budget were lying.
Likewise, the President said that the High Court petition questioning the constitutionality of the 2025 National Budget law is a "destabilization" plot against the government. — BM, GMA Integrated News