The insistence of former Supreme Court Associate Justice Adolf Azcuna that the Congress cannot increase the appropriations made by the President in the National Expenditure Program (NEP) converts the Congress into a rubberstamp of the President in the enactment of the General Appropriations Act (GAA).
The National Expenditure Program (NEP), which is the basis of the General Appropriations Bill (GAB), is not cast in stone.
The belatedly surfaced SARO confirms two overriding facts:
The ominous silence from the Office of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on the 51stanniversary of his father’s declaration of martial law is both deafening and revealing.
The atrocities and plunder of the Marcos, Sr. martial law regime and the sacrifices and heroism of its victims and survivors must never be allowed to be swept under the rug of distortion and historical revisionism.
