2024 proposed budget

2024 Budget Cuts and Increases From 2023

October 3, 2023

Debt servicing, infrastructure and defense are getting big increases in the 2024 budget. But much-needed service-oriented areas such as education, social work, labor and health are either given negligible increases or defunded.

2024 health budget cuts weaken system further

September 6, 2023

President Marcos Jr said in his last SONA that the government will implement structural changes in the health system, but this doesn’t seem to manifest in the proposed 2024 budget.

Marcos Jr administration’s 2024 budget priorities

August 18, 2023

The government’s budget has for years been biased for big-business infra, debt-servicing and military, while allocations for social services, agriculture and labor have been lacking. The Marcos Jr administration’s 2023 budget was no different – how about the proposed 2024 budget?