Erwin Tulfo
Erwin Tulfo | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Senator of the Philippines | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office June 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of the House of Representatives for ACT-CIS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office May 30, 2023 – June 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chair of the House Committee on Games and Amusements | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office August 9, 2023 – June 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Joseph Bernos | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Antonio Ferrer | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary of Social Welfare and Development | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office June 30, 2022 – December 27, 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| President | Bongbong Marcos | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Rolando Joselito Bautista | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Edu Punay (OIC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Acting Chairperson of Senate Blue Ribbon Committee | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office October 8, 2025 – November 11, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Panfilo Lacson | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Panfilo Lacson | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Erwin Teshiba Tulfo August 10, 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Party | Lakas (2024–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | ACT-CIS (party-list; 2023–2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent(s) | Ramon S. Tulfo Sr. Caridad Teshiba | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of the East (BSBA) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Erwin Teshiba Tulfo (Tagalog: [ˈʔɛɾwin ˈtulfo]; born August 10, 1964) is a Filipino politician, news anchor, and columnist who has served as a senator of the Philippines since 2025. He previously served as the representative for ACT-CIS Partylist and as a deputy majority leader of the Philippine House of Representatives from 2023 to 2025. He previously served as the secretary of social welfare and development from June 30 to December 27, 2022, when his appointment was blocked and bypassed by the Commission on Appointments, during the presidency of Bongbong Marcos.
After his father died in 1985, Tulfo moved to the United States with a tourist visa and spent a decade as an undocumented worker, which he claimed was done to support his family. A member of the Tulfo family of broadcasters, he was first hired as a news reporter at ABS-CBN upon returning to the Philippines in the 1990s, anchoring various news programs at the network such as TV Patrol and Pulso and hosting the shows Magandang Gabi... Bayan, Magandang Umaga, Bayan and Private I.
He co-hosted PRTV Prime Media's primetime newscast Arangkada Balita in 2025, alongside Niña Corpuz. He also hosted PTV's primetime news program Ulat Bayan from 2020 to 2022, as well as one of its AM radio counterparts: Radyo Pilipinas Uno's Erwin Tulfo: Live! or Tutok: Erwin Tulfo (2017–2022). On TV5, Tulfo hosted the programs Tutok Tulfo (2010–2012) and T3: Alliance (2011–2016), and anchored the news program Aksyon from 2010 to 2017. He has also previously worked for GMA Network, Radio Philippines Network (RPN) and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC).
In 2000, Tulfo was convicted of four counts of libel in Pasay for a series of articles he wrote for the tabloid Remate in 1999 that accused a Bureau of Customs lawyer as an "extortionist... and a smuggler". In 2011, Tulfo was fined ₱10,000 (equivalent to ₱13,912 in 2021) by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) for irresponsible coverage of the August 2010 Manila hostage crisis as host of RMN's Radyo Mo Nationwide, with him admitting to violating police instructions by interviewing the hostage taker while negotiations were ongoing.