President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. defended himself against calls for him to resign over the flood control project anomalies.

According to the President, he himself exposed the irregularities in the said projects, which he said were not addressed by previous administrations.

However, President Marcos emphasized that his administration's fight against the flood control anomaly continues.

President Marcos questioned why past administrations did not take similar action if they were aware of the same problems.

"And I'm the only one that has started to do anything about this. Bakit ang mga nakaramba na Pangulo, nakita pa kayong ginawang gano'n? Meron ba silang kinulong? Meron ba silang pi-freeze na account? Meron ba silang mga investigation na ginawa? Wala. Sa akin lang. Tapos sasabihin, ako daw ang may kagagawan. Eh kung talagang racket ko yun, ba't ko sisiraan yung racket ko? Diba? That makes absolutely no sense.”

PBBM also recalled that the problem was already recognized as early as the previous administration, but no action was taken.

"And back to about that time 2017-2018 and at the time the president, President (Rodrigo) Duterte acknowledged that there were great problems in terms of the flood control, the flood control projects. Pero wala namang nangyari. Having acknowledged it, it did not find accountability in anybody. So I guess that was left up to me to do. And so we are still doing it. We're still working on it. As I said, the more we look, the more we investigate, the more we find."