MANILA, Nov. 15 -- President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Saturday shrugged off former Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co's claim that he orchestrated the PHP100 billion worth of insertions in the 2025 national budget.

"I don't want to even dignify what he is saying," Marcos said in a media interview in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, when asked to react to Co's allegations that he ordered the insertion in the 2025 spending law.

Marcos' statement came after Co released two videos on Facebook claiming that the President and former House of Representatives Speaker Martin Romualdez had ordered PHP100 billion worth of insertions in the 2025 national budget.

In the second video uploaded on Saturday, Co claimed all the PHP100 billion in inse...