President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has approved the proposed 2025 National Expenditure Program (NEP).
“You see a really good thing,” Marcos Jr. said in Tuesday’s (July 2) Cabinet meeting where Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman presented the proposed spending plan.
The 2025 budget was pegged at P6.352 trillion.
“Since I’ve seen it before on the macro level, I think the priorities in terms of our proposed appropriations, upon addressing it, weighted our priorities properly in terms of appropriations,” the President added.
Under the approved NEP, the agencies getting the lion’s share of government appropriations include education, public works, health, interior and local government, and defense.
Other top priorities are social welfare, agriculture and attached corporations, agrarian reform, transportation, the judiciary, and justice.IMT
