Marcos' office gets free pass during House panel budget deliberations for 3rd year

For the third straight year, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Office of the President (OP) breezed through committee-level budget deliberations despite the leftist bloc’s objections, with one of his in-laws championing his funding request for 2025.

Navotas Representative Toby Tiangco, whose wife Michelle Romualdez Yap is Marcos’ cousin, facilitated the vote on Monday, September 9, to terminate the OP’s budget briefing, elevating its request from the appropriations committee to the House plenary.

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