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Palace to let Diokno decide on House panel’s show cause order

January 28, 2019 admin 2019 budget, ben diokno, Congress, Latest News Stories, local news, Malacañang, Nation, national news, news, Philippine news update, Rodrigo Duterte, Salvador Panelo

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 06:51:27 +0000

Malacañang on Tuesday said it will let Budget Secretary Ben Diokno “decide for himself” after the House appropriations committee issued a show cause order against him for his repeated failure to attend the chamber’s inquiry on the alleged anomalies in the proposed

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Palace blames Congress for stalled pay hike of state workers

January 13, 2019 admin 2019 national budget, ben diokno, gaa 2019, Latest News Stories, local news, Nation, national news, news, Philippine news updates, politics, Rodrigo Duterte, rolando andaya, salary hike, Salvador Panelo, ssl, Supreme Court

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 06:39:33 +0000

It is Congress, not the executive department, that is holding hostage the scheduled increase in the salary of state workers.

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Diokno: Lawmakers diverting attention from ‘pork’

December 17, 2018 admin 2019 budget, ben diokno, Congress, corruption, DBM, general appropriations bill, Latest News Stories, local news, Nation, national news, news, Philippine news update, Pork barrel

Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:33:33 +0000

Lawmakers’ accusations that the Budget secretary was behind “insertions” in the 2019 budget are mere diversions from the “pork” issue.

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Diokno denies hand in no-bidding lease deal of Nayong Pilipino

September 4, 2018 admin ben diokno, latest stories, Manila Times, manilatimes, nayong pilipino foundation, Today's Breaking News

BUDGET Secretary Benjamin Diokno denied any involvement in revoking the bidding requirement for the lease contract of Nayong Pilipino Foundation Inc. (NFPI). “We should not distract ourselves from the main issue here,” he said in a statement released on Tuesday. Diokno’s statement came after sacked Government Corporate Counsel Rudolf Jurado tagged Diokno and Finance Secretary Sonny […]

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