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Senators Imee Marcos and Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri proposed on Monday that President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. could return the ratified 2025 budget bill to Congress to address contentious budgetary allocations.

The Senate on Monday approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to extend land lease limits for foreign investors from 75 years to 99 years.

The Senate on Monday approved on third and final reading a bill reorganizing the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) into the Department of Economy, Planning and Development (DEPDev).

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. can increase the 2025 budget of the Department of Education (DepEd) by using billions of pesos worth of unspent funds from previous years, Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero said.

The Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA) is implementing stricter security protocols in the Senate amid a "threat" made through Facebook, according to Senate Secretary Renato Bantug Jr. Wednesday.

The National Security Council (NSC) on Wednesday hailed the Philippine-Japan Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) as a " new chapter " in defense collaboration as it welcomed the Senate's concurrence on its ratification.

Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero and Finance committee chairperson Grace Poe on Wednesday tagged as part of checks and balances of government and sign of healthy democracy the decision of Malacañang to defer the signing of the 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB).

Several senators on Wednesday called on the government to rigorously monitor and extend aid to overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who are currently detained abroad amid the return of Mary Jane Veloso to the Philippines.

Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday said she was more open to a reenacted budget for a few weeks in January than to pass the current version of the 2025 national budget bill, which she tagged as "very, very bad."