House starts plenary debates on 2023 budget – guess who’s out of the country
As the chamber begins the more rigorous scrutiny of the Marcos administration's first budget, Speaker Romualdez and Representative Marcos join the President's delegation in New York City
Right on schedule, plenary deliberations on the national government’s proposed budget for 2023 are underway at the House of Representatives.
On Tuesday, September 20, the House began discussing the 2023 National Expenditure Program after committee-level deliberations concluded last week.
But just as the arguably more rigorous part of legislative scrutiny on the budget begins, two senior leaders of the chambers – who are also relatives of the President – are out of the country.
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, who represents the 1st District of Leyte, and Senior Deputy Majority Leader Ferdinand Alexander Marcos, who represents the 1st District of Ilocos Norte, are both part of the delegation accompanying President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to his working visit in New York City.
