It is a proposal, not a law
The National Expenditure Program is what the executive branch is asking for. The House and the Senate still have to deliberate it, amend it, and pass it. That window is the only point at which a member of the public can change a line, and it closes.
FY2027 proposed
₱7.20T
Against the FY2026 baseline
+₱407.02B
Cost of reading it
₱0
Support the CADENA Act
CADENA would put the budget’s full paper trail (the allocations, the releases, and the actual disbursements) online in machine-readable form, as a standing legal requirement rather than a favour. Everything on this site is built from the proposal stage alone. The later stages, where money is moved and spent, are the part nobody can currently follow.
Findings, worked through
Two gaps of the kind this site exists to make visible: a masterplan the budget does not name, and a contracting record that grew sevenfold while admitting almost no new firms. Both are the kind a legislator can ask about directly.
Send a finding to the coalition
The People’s Budget Coalition brings citizen findings into the House and Senate deliberations. They can only carry what is specific enough to put to a department, so answer these four before you write.
- Which line, exactly?
- Department, agency, program, and the amount as the API returns it. Link the page you found it on; every view on this site encodes its filters in the URL.
- What changed against FY2026?
- A number in isolation is hard to argue with. A number next to last year’s enacted figure is not. Both are on every table here.
- Why does the change need explaining?
- A jump of several thousand percent may be a new program, a merged line, or a renamed one. Say which you think it is, and say if you are unsure.
- What would you ask a legislator?
- One question a committee could actually put to a department during deliberations beats a page of commentary.
Check it against the law
Every “versus FY2026” figure here is measured against the enacted General Appropriations Act for FY2026: Republic Act No. 12314, published by the Department of Budget and Management on January 6, 2026. That is the document a legislator will have in front of them, so it is the one worth quoting.
- Volume I-A: Congress through the Department of National Defense, plus the preliminary provision. PDF
- Volume I-B: DPWH through the Commission on Human Rights, the Special Purpose Funds, the general provisions, and the President’s veto message. PDF
- Volume I-C: Details of the DPWH programme and project list on its own. PDF
- Volume II: The same agency structure again, at the detail of budgetary programmes. PDF
- FY2026 GAA by object of expenditure (XLSX): the only machine-readable copy DBM itself publishes.
- House Bill 4058, the FY2026 appropriations bill as filed: Filed on August 27, 2025 in the 20th Congress. What the executive asked for, before the amendments that produced the law above. PDF
DBM’s full FY2026 GAA index: the same volumes broken out per agency, one PDF each, if you only need one department.
Analyse it yourself
This site is one reading of the data, not the only one. The same numbers are available directly: as a REST API with no key and open CORS, and as an MCP server you can point an AI tool at. Every table here also exports as CSV or JSON.
- REST API and MCP documentation: endpoints, cursors, and the row shapes.
- https://budget.bettergov.ph/mcp: the MCP server endpoint.
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The rest of the public record
A budget is one document in a chain: a bill becomes a law, the law becomes releases, the releases become debt and collections. This site only renders the first link. The people who publish the budget API publish most of the others too.
- BetterGov open data portal: 25 datasets, each with its licence and last-updated date stated. Open Budget NEP/GAA covers 2020 to 2026 in bulk, seven years further back than the API this site reads. National Government Outstanding Debt runs from 1986, which is the other side of the debt-service line.
- Open Congress API: 165,000 bills across 13 Congresses, with their authors and the House PDF of each. It is how the appropriations bill linked above was identified. It records what was filed, not how far a bill has since travelled.
Tools that go further than this site
An appropriation is not a contract, and a contract is not a finished structure. This site will not tell you whether the money worked, because answering that means estimating, and estimating is the one thing it does not do. These people do, and each is explicit about what their method cannot see.
- tulaypinoy.ph
Checks completed DPWH flood-control projects against Sentinel-2 imagery from before and after the reported construction period.
A red marker means the satellite sees no change where a finished project should show one. Narrow structures can be genuinely built and still fall below what 10m imagery resolves. It flags for review; it does not conclude.
- leaves.ph
Tree canopy for 892 Metro Manila barangays from 2019 to 2026, next to where satellites flagged actual tree loss.
Canopy is a trained classifier over Sentinel-2 bands and Meta canopy height, scoring 0.78 F1 against 656 hand-labelled pixels. It is a model output, not a measurement.
- dataviz.ph
Puts DPWH contract awards, poverty, provincial GDP and regional inflation on one animated chart, by province, from 2014 to 2024.
Poverty is surveyed only in 2018, 2021 and 2023; the years between are linearly interpolated, which makes the pandemic spike invisible. About 20% of DPWH award value cannot be attributed to a single province.
- ph-civic-data-mcp
An MCP server that gives an AI tool 29 tools across PSA, PHIVOLCS, PAGASA, PhilGEPS and others, so the surrounding economic and hazard data can be pulled alongside the budget.
Runs locally under uvx rather than at a URL, so it is a tool you install, not an endpoint you call. Its accountability checks compute indicators only.
- paper-trail-ph
Builds the network of flood-control contractors and their partnerships as dated events, so the patterns can be watched as they formed rather than guessed from a single snapshot.
Patterns computed from public procurement records; correlation is not causation, and a flagged pattern is a reason to look closer, not a finding of wrongdoing.
None of these are ours and none of their figures appear anywhere else on this site. Every number here is still read straight from the budget API.