Nat'l budget to be signed before Christmas

The Marcos administration is expecting the proposed P6.352-trillion national budget for 2025 to be signed before Christmas.

- By ALEXIS ROMERO

Presidential Legislative Liaison Office chief Mark Llandro Mendoza said the spending bill is one of four measures that the administration hopes would be signed by yearend.

"Perhaps before Christmas," Mendoza said in a chance interview yesterday at Malacañang.

He did not say what other measures may be enacted this year, although he noted that some of the bills are in the bicameral conference committee stage while others are being tackled at the Senate plenary.

A bicameral conference committee, composed of eight members of the Senate and 16 members of the House of Representatives, is reconciling the conflicting provisions of the House and Senate versions of the bill.