This will be the first full-year budget of the newly created Department of Migrant Workers.
MANILA, Philippines – The newly created department catering to the needs and welfare of overseas Filipino workers inches closer to having its very first annual budget of P16.09 billion, as the Senate approved its proposed 2023 budget on Friday, November 11.
The interpellations for the DMW budget began past 1 am on Friday at the tail end of marathon debates for other agencies which began earlier on Thursday, November 10. Migrant Workers Secretary Susan “Toots” Ople, a cancer survivor, stayed in the plenary hall the whole day, waiting for her department to be taken up.
Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito, sponsor of the DMW’s budget, called the budget hearing “historic.” Spirits were high in the plenary hall as also present were senators Joel Villanueva and Bong Go, who were proponents of the OFW department bills in the previous Congress.
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