Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, formally endorses the 2018 General Appropriations Bill for plenary deliberations, Thursday, October 05, 2017. “The 2018 General Appropriations Bill is a national expenditure program touted by the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte to bring about inequality-reducing transformation, or pagbabago; a budget seeking to enhance the social fabric, or malasakit; one that will increase the country’s growth potential, or patuloy na pag-unlad; and an expenditure program that seeks to maintain the foundations for sustainable development, “Legarda said.