House leaders join the administration’s economic team for a breakfast hosted by Speaker Martin Romualdez before the official start this morning of the  month-long House hearings on the proposed P5.268 trillion national budget of the Marcos administration for 2023.

From left to right are House Appropriations chair Zaldy Co, Speaker Romualdez, Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan, Appropriations Vice Chair Stella Quimbo, NEDA Secretary Arsenio Balisacan, Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto, Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno and BSP Governor Felipe Medalla.