MALACAÑANG is choosing not to respond to criticisms from Sen. Imee Marcos regarding the impending enactment of the 2025 national budget.

The senator compared the decision of her brother, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., to sign the spending measure to "a thief in the night before [the] New Year," citing its many contentious provisions.

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