CUTS made by Congress in the annual budget program surpassed the P1-trillion mark in the first three years of the Marcos administration. Most of the cuts were from strategic transport, infrastructure and agri-based investments, and shifted to graft-prone projects like flood control, drainage systems and other local projects.
According to former budget secretary Florencio "Butch" Abad, the unprecedented huge cuts and diversions in the national government spending program not only defied the norm in budget-making but also circumvented the 2013 Supreme Court resolution declaring the Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF), or congressional pork barrel, unconstitutional.
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