2026 national budget

2026 Education Budget: What numbers can’t deliver

Pebrero 10, 2026

FEATURES

The Marcos Jr administration celebrates a ‘true education budget’ for 2026. Yet this declaration rings hollow.

Harvesting pork, not rural development: The 2026 agriculture budget examined

Enero 18, 2026

FEATURES

A closer look reveals that agricultural budget is not pork-free.

2026 Budget: Sound and fury, signifying…

Disyembre 31, 2025

The budget that will soon be signed into law is rhetorically reformist but fundamentally politically functional, achieved at the expense of social and economic transformation.

Gov’t debt balloons to feed Marcos admin’s huge pork barrel addiction

Disyembre 9, 2025

The huge increase in debt corresponds to huge increases in controversial indicators of pork barrel in the national budgets under Pres. Marcos Jr.

IBON Executive Director after attending Senate Finance Committee hearing on budget transparency

Oktubre 29, 2025

Livestreaming isn’t transparency if lawmakers still make the real decisions off-ca

IBON: Flood control budget realignment confirms Marcos Jr’s selective anti-corruption drive

Setyembre 24, 2025

NEWS

The continued neglect of key agencies and the mere tokenistic involvement of the public in the budget process strongly suggests a superficial anti-corruption campaign by the Marcos Jr administration.