Gov't to beef up infra spending to P1.56 T in 2026

The national government is beefing up its infrastructure spending next year by three percent, based on Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing for fiscal year 2026.

- MARCO LUIS BEECH

The budget document showed that the infrastructure program disbursements for next year will be at P1.56 trillion, 3.2 percent higher than this year's P1.51 trillion, as approved by the Cabinet-level Development Budget Coordination Committee.

Next year's infrastructure spending is equivalent to 5.1 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

This is higher than the P1.22-trillion allocation for the education sector, which is equivalent to four percent of GDP.

Budget Assistant Secretary Romeo Balanquit said infrastructure projects include local government share in the national tax allotment (NTA).