BBM: Budget challenge part of destabilization

'I Can't Find Those Damned Blank Items'

- By ALEXIS ROMERO

Groups challenging the constitutionality of the 2025 budget before the Supreme Court are out to shut down the government so they could carry out their “destabilization” agenda, President Marcos said yesterday, even as he expressed confidence that the spending law would be able to withstand legal scrutiny.

Speaking to reporters in Cebu, Marcos said the administration has no contingency plan in case the Supreme Court strikes down the P6.326-trillion national budget as unconstitutional.

“No, we shut down everything. I guess that’s what they want. They want the government to cease working so they can continue with their destabilization,” the President said.

Marcos said he was wondering why critics would bother to question the expenditure law on the basis of “difficult” assertions.