Practice question
The President proposes a new project in the submitted budget, but Congress enacts no appropriation item covering that project. The President later points only to the earlier proposal as authority to spend Treasury money on it. Is that sufficient?
- Yes, because presidential proposals automatically become law
- Yes, because a proposal is an unlimited continuing appropriation
- Yes, if the Department of Budget and Management issues a press release
- Yes, because congressional omission transfers the power to the President
- No; the proposed budget alone supplies no appropriation made by law
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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