Imposing a cap on unprogrammed budgetary funds, with a limit preferably as low as four percent of the national budget, would set a boundary for Congress to refrain from inflating allocations for national projects.
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Assistant Secretary Romeo Matthew T. Balanquit told reporters on the sidelines of the DBM’s 2025 Fiscal Policy Conference that unprogrammed appropriations (UAs) should be capped at around four to five percent of the national budget.
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