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Bicam sets OVP budget to P889M; Office of the President gets P28B
The bicameral conference committee has approved the P889.2 million budget for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) for 2026.
This approved amount is the same as the one proposed in the National Expenditure Program (NEP).
Previously, the House of Representatives had reduced the OVP's budget proposal to P733 million.
The reduction was prompted by Vice President Sara Duterte's refusal to defend her office's budget during deliberations.
Vice President Duterte declined to answer questions regarding the OVP's use of approximately P625 million in confidential funds from 2022 and 2023.
She stated that discussing these funds would compromise national security and was a subject of an ongoing impeachment case against her.
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