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Absence of Cabinet execs won t delay 2023 budget debates

(File photo) MANILA - The absence of key members of the Cabinet will not delay the plenary deliberations of the House of Representatives on the proposed PHP5.268 trillion 2023 national budget, a ranking legislator said Monday. This came as several Cabinet officials, particularly the country's economic managers, accompanied President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on his trip to the United States to participate in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). During the weekly news forum "Ugnayan sa Batasan," House Deputy Majority Leader, Iloilo 1st District Rep. Janette Garin noted that by tradition, the House of Representatives usually defers plenary deliberations on the proposed budget of an agency whose head, or Secretary, is not present in the chamber. "Be that as it may we don't see any problem because the minority and the minority agreed even the independent minority that we will pursue deliberations of the proposed budget o

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