Tension erupted between two lawmakers on Friday at the last day of the budget plenary debate after questions on the budget of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) were deferred.

Majority Floor Leader and Quezon City Sixth District Rep. Christopher Belmonte drew the ire of Abakada Party-list Rep. Jonathan Dela Cruz after the former agreed to suspend the latter’s interpellation of the ARMM’s P16-billion budget.

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