Sen. Imee Marcos appealed to her younger brother President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to thoroughly check, line by line, the 2025 budget bill before he signs it, warning against the changes made to the proposed funding that allegedly go against the administration’s priorities for next year.

Senator Imee Marcos has urged her brother, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to make a thorough review of the Congress-crafted 2025 national budget bill amid "mysterious items." Marcos made the call as she questioned several provisions of the final version of the 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB),

Senators proposed that President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. could return the ratified 2025 budget bill to Congress to address contentious budgetary allocations.

President Marcos yesterday vowed to restore the multibillion-peso allocation slashed from the budget of the Department of Education (DepEd), saying the move to reduce the agency’s proposed outlay for next year goes against his policy direction.