The Department of Budget (DBM) on Tuesday expressed confidence that the proposed P6.793-trillion budget for 2026 will be ...

Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, the top Democrat on the Senate  Budget Committee, is leading a group of Senate Democrats in ...

Government shutdown enters fifth week as federal workers face missed paychecks. Senate votes continue to fail while air ...

SENATOR Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing a “granural” tack for highly detailed line items in the proposed 2026 national budget, arguing that a high level of granularity would remove any room for ...

Follow live updates on the shutdown for Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, here. See earlier developments below. What to know about Day ...

Sen. Panfilo Lacson said the Senate would remove some P42 billion in appropriations for “ayuda” or social assistance programs from the unprogrammed appropriations in the budget bill for 2026.

The federal government shutdown continues as states scramble to fund food assistance programs for millions of Americans.

The first-term senator talked budget, trade and other things during a Harrisburg stopover on his way back to D.C. for votes ...

U.S. President Donald Trump told new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi today that they will have “a fantastic ...

Republican lawmakers called for the preservation of the CDFI Fund, which helps provide loans to low-income and underserved populations.

The federal government has been shut down for almost four weeks, with no end in sight. But even if Congress finds a way out of its current stalemate, lawmakers fear they’ll be right back in the same ...

The Senate returns on Oct. 27, but questions remain about when the 13th vote towards ending the shutdown will occur.