SENATE President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson on Sunday flagged P2.5 billion in “allocables” tied to Sen. Imee Marcos in the 2025 National Expenditure Program (NEP). The senator also questioned Marcos’ silence on the supposed “giniling” or “pork” allocation in the 2026 budget bill when it was being tackled at the bicameral conference level. “Marcos had allocables worth P2.5 billion in the NEP according to the Cabral files,” Lacson said. These are based on documents he received from the camp of the late Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) undersecretary Catalina Cabral. Lacson noted that while Marcos rejected the ratified version of the 2026 budget bill due to increases in funding for assistance programs she labeled as “soft pork” — among them the Medical Assistance to Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients and Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations — she had pork in the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA), and was “even physically present in the distribution of assistance last year.” “She was so fond of attending such distributions, and now she says there is ‘pork giniling’ in the budget? You know, if you don’t have any moral ascendancy, just keep quiet because it will come back to you. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” Lacson said. Marcos has yet to comment on Lacson’s allegation. He said most allocables were moved from the NEP to the 2025 GAA through insertions in the bicam, where Marcos had at least the same amount based on DPWH records. “While part of the insertions were flagged for later release (FLR), part of her FLR allocables had been released,” he said in a radio interview. “She makes a lot of noise criticizing the 2026 budget for having ‘pork’ but she had ‘pork’ in the budget, at least in the 2025 GAA. So she has no moral ascendancy to criticize,” Lacson said. “In the first place, she was a member of the Senate contingent in the bicameral conference committee. Why didn’t she raise the issue that there was pork? We heard nothing from her then, when she was in the bicam,” he added.