Ping: Almost all senators had insertions in 2025 budgetMANILA, Philippines — Almost all senators in the 19th Congress had budget insertions in the proposed 2025 national budget amounting to “hundreds of billions of pesos,” according to documents reviewed by Sen. Panfilo Lacson, who warned that the scale of the allocations was unprecedented. Lacson said he obtained records showing the amounts of the insertions, at least on the Senate side, whether in the National Expenditure Program (NEP) or the bicameral version of the budget. “We saw the list of senators with large budget insertions. I’m saying, in the 19th Congress, almost all had an insertion,” Lacson told radio dwIZ. Other 19th Congress senators, whose terms either expired or failed in their reelection bid, include Sonny Angara, Nancy Binay, Koko Pimentel, Grace Poe, Bong Revilla, Francis Tolentino and Cynthia Villar.