Here鈥檚 a quick roundup of today鈥檚 top stories:
House begins committee hearings on proposed 2025 national budget
The House of Representatives started its deliberations on the P6.3 trillion proposed national budget for 2025 at the committee level on Monday.
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez initially presided, and then the House Committee on Appropriations started its deliberations by scrutinizing the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC).
Dela Rosa to PNP: Let VP pick 31 for security staff, possibly from Davao
Give Vice President Sara Duterte the freedom to choose who among her personal security detail should stay, Sen. Ronald 鈥淏ato鈥� dela Rosa urged Gen. Rommel Marbil, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), on Monday.
Dela Rosa aired his appeal during the hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, which he heads.
Top leaders of the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday urged wanted religious leader Apollo Quiboloy to finally come out of hiding and surrender, assuring that due process and human rights would be respected.
PNP chief Rommel Marbil first aired his demand before the Senate panel on public order and dangerous drugs鈥� Monday hearing, maintaining that the June 10 operation to serve an arrest warrant against alleged rapist Quiboloy did not violate any rules.
Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino said he has stepped down as a member of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) due to 鈥渟ignificant differences in foreign policy directions,鈥� particularly matters regarding the West Philippine Sea.
Tolentino attached to his letter to PDP President Sen. Robin Padilla his letter to former party head Jose Alvarez, explaining why he chose to disengage from the party.
Team Philippines gymnast Carlos Yulo is set for a major windfall with his unprecedented success in the Paris Olympics, becoming the first Filipino to win a pair of gold medals in the Summer Games.
His incentives from his gold medal haul are expected to continue to increase, if not double, as more private companies pitch in to reward the most successful Olympian the Philippines has ever produced after his gold medal win in vault Sunday night.