House approves P2.6T budget

Voting 197-27, the House of Representatives approved the P2.606-trillion budget for 2015 on 3rd and final reading despite opposition from party-list lawmakers over errata submitted after budget debates had already ended. The budget bill allows Malacañang to declare “savings” in any agency at any given time of the year. It also represents the largest budget to be approved in the lead-up to a national election. Party-list lawmakers had wanted their colleagues to return the budget to the plenary after the Department of Budget and Management submitted a 269-page errata after the budget was approved on 2nd reading. But this was rejected.

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