Practice question
A statute validly authorizes presidential augmentation. An existing executive-department item has a deficiency, and another executive-department item has actual savings under the governing law. All other legal requirements are met. What may the President do under Article VI, Section 25(5)?
- Create an entirely new legislative appropriation by memorandum
- Augment the deficient executive item from those executive savings
- Transfer the savings to a Senate item under presidential augmentation power
- Convert every unspent balance into savings regardless of law
- Ignore the statute because authorization is unnecessary
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI, Sections 25 and 29(1), and Article VII, Section 22, presidential budget and appropriation limits: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353
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