
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.
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.
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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