Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 09:43:10 +0000
House representatives whose districts got pork insertions have one common denominator: They’re all close to Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
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Sen. Panfilo Lacson said he would spare no one in his plan to remove or reduce what he believed were pork barrel insertions in the proposed P3.757-trillion national budget for 2019
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The realignment of nearly P52 billion in the House of Representatives’ version of the P3.757-trillion proposed budget for 2019 won’t save the newly funded projects from Senate scrutiny, senators said on Wednesday, vowing to delve into the justification for what they called “capricious” new allocations.
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Whether it’s cash-based or obligation-based, the Makabayan bloc of party-list congressmen in the House of Representatives is rejecting President Rodrigo Duterte’s P3.76-trillion budget for 2019 because of the huge cuts in the appropriations for social services and productive enterprises.
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President Rodrigo Duterte has stepped in to break a deadlock between the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the House of Representatives on his P3.76-trillion proposed cash-based budget for 2019.
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If members of the House of Representatives think they can scare Malacañang with a reenacted budget, they are mistaken. The Palace, according to presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, will never cave in to the demand of the supermajority in the House to drop the shift to cash-based budgeting in 2019. President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in the […]
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