New administration takes office; flood control budgets begin sustained growth

The administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. took office on June 30, 2022, with the General Appropriations Act for 2023 already reflecting an upward trajectory in flood control allocations across the Department of Public Works and Highways portfolio. Subsequent years saw cumulative flood control budgets reach approximately P545 billion across the 2022 to 2025 enactments. Within this total, provincial allocations diverged significantly from historical baselines. Ilocos Norte's annual flood control budget grew from roughly P463 million in the previous administration's terminal year to approximately P8.72 billion at peak. Leyte's grew from roughly P2.17 billion to approximately P10.06 billion. Bulacan accounted for approximately 45 percent of Central Luzon's P548 billion flood control budget across the same period. The scale and geographic distribution of these allocations later became the subject of investigations by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, the Independent Commission on Infrastructure created by Executive Order 94, the Office of the Ombudsman, and the Anti-Money Laundering Council. The events on this timeline trace the arc of those investigations from 2025 onward.