Practice question
The Executive has genuine savings and legal authority to augment its own deficient appropriation items. A constitutional commission asks the President to transfer some of those savings to an existing deficient item in the commission's budget. Officials claim the transfer is valid because the recipient requested it and both offices serve the public. Under Araullo, what is the controlling objection?
- A commission can never have an appropriation.
- Executive savings cannot be used for this cross-border augmentation outside the President's respective offices.
- Any recipient request automatically repeals Section 25(5).
- The defect is merely that the transfer was requested in writing.
- Every use of savings within the Executive is equally prohibited.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI Section 25(5): https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Araullo v. Aquino III, G.R. No. 209287 et al., July 1, 2014, main decision, cross-border augmentation: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/jul2014/gr_209287_2014.html
- Araullo v. Aquino III, February 3, 2015, main resolution: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/feb2015/gr_209287_2015.html
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