Palace: 2019 budget will be ‘pork-free’
Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 04:55:50 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The P3.757 national budget for 2019 would be “pork-free,” Malacañang said on Friday, as Congress is set to pass the budget this afternoon after months of delay.
In a Palace briefing, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said President Rodrigo Duterte “will go through each and every item” of the budget to remove any irregularity.
Will it be “pork-free?” Nograles briefly replied, “Yes.”
“If anything irregular, the President knows what to do,” he added.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson earlier urged the President to use his “line-item veto power” over the proposed 2019 budget by removing “pork inserted by lawmakers” who are “incorrigibly insatiable” and “beyond redemption.” /muf