Senators Loren Legarda and Kiko Pangilinan had a brief exchange during the fifth day of the bicameral conference committee meeting over "last-minute" adjustments in the 2026 national budget. The debate arose as the panel tackled the adjustments for Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) budget, with Pangilinan seeking to revisit the approved budget for the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) farm-to-market road projects, and its request to correct and replace the P8.9-billion worth of projects with