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News from Metro Manila this week centers on SC strikes down 2024, 2025 budgets, sets limits for unprogrammed appropriations🌐. Rounding out the latest reports, Quezon City, San Juan schools suspend classes amid rising flu cases🌐.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Yesterday2 reports

Politics18:56 PHTTop story

SC strikes down 2024, 2025 budgets, sets limits for unprogrammed appropriations

The Supreme Court (SC) has declared as unconstitutional the General Appropriations Acts (GAAs) for 2024 and 2025 due to budget increases made by Congress, as well as provisions allowing unprogrammed appropriations in the 2026 budget, the high tribunal said Tuesday.

GMA News Online · Yesterday

Local Government00:00 PHTTop story

Quezon City, San Juan schools suspend classes amid rising flu cases

The Philippine Science High School main campus in Quezon City and the San Juan Science High School suspended face-to-face classes yesterday due to rising flu cases.

The Philippine Star · Yesterday