Asks for the 2026 Budget

Disyembre 3, 2025

IBON Executive Director on the Php500 Noche Buena budget

Nobyembre 29, 2025

Porkiest of all

Nobyembre 28, 2025

Marcos Jr is the porkiest of them all, sustaining the past administration’s bloated, confidential, intelligence funds and contingent funds since the start of his term. But what clinches him the title “king of pork” is the scandalous spiking of unprogrammed appropriations under his watch.

Pork bonanza

Nobyembre 28, 2025

Deindustrializing economy

Nobyembre 27, 2025

Unstable labor market

Nobyembre 27, 2025

Exclusionary growth

Nobyembre 27, 2025

Corruption-driven growth

Nobyembre 27, 2025

The national budgeting process

Nobyembre 27, 2025

The budget process clearly shows the President’s culpability for hundreds of billions of pesos in pork barrel projects annually; for the abuse of budget mechanisms such as the unprecedented increase in unprogrammed appropriations to carve out pork barrel in the budget; and for the retention of his own bloated confidential and intelligence funds as well as that of the Office of the Vice President.