PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his Cabinet are "thoroughly reviewing" the P6.352 trillion national budget for 2025 to ensure its constitutionality, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said.

In a text message to reporters, Bersamin said the exhaustive review of next year's spending bill is being done to weed out the last-minute insertions the president said were not part of the original requests of the different departments.

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