Practice question
The executive has actual savings and statutory authority for augmentation of its own deficient items. A Senate office asks the President to use those savings to augment its appropriation. The President approves, citing the office's written consent and a useful public purpose. Under Araullo, what is the constitutional result?
- Consent makes the cross-border augmentation valid
- The transfer is valid whenever the recipient has any appropriation
- The President's own-department limitation bars this cross-border augmentation despite consent and purpose
- The transfer is valid if both offices use the same Treasury bank account
- The transfer is valid because all branches form one government
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
- Araullo v. Aquino III, G.R. No. 209287 and consolidated cases, July 1, 2014, main decision, constitutional limits on augmentation: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/jul2014/gr_209287_2014.html
- Araullo v. Aquino III, G.R. No. 209287 and consolidated cases, February 3, 2015, main resolution, savings and prohibition of cross-border transfers: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/feb2015/gr_209287_2015.html
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