Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:25:34 +0000
How did a single contractor bag 30 government projects worth billions of pesos before Congress could even approve the national budget for 2019?
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:24:34 +0000
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Monday defended the “prerogative” of members of Congress to realign funds for their pet projects in the proposed P3.8-trillion national budget amid allegations of last-minute insertions in the spending bill.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:24:30 +0000
The House of Representatives has directed Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to appear at its plenary session on Tuesday to shed light on P975 billion in unspent public funds during the first two years of the Duterte administration.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:24:06 +0000
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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A lawmaker on Tuesday said that the P55-billion insertions to the proposed 2019 national budget are not irregular or illegal.
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