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Suarez blasts Alvarez: You’re using Road Board issue to ‘divert attention’

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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:29:38 +0000

Suarez blasts Alvarez: You're using Road Board issue to 'divert attention'

House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez has dismissed as a mere “diversion” the claims of former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez that the attacks of the House against Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno were due to the control over the road user’s tax.

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Palace: Duterte ‘is keeping’ Diokno amid budget mess allegations

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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:59:48 +0000

Palace: Duterte 'is keeping' Diokno amid budget mess allegations

President Rodrigo Duterte “is keeping” Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, Malacañang said Tuesday after allegations of budget insertions and questionable allocations were thrown against the Cabinet official.

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‘Insertions’ in 2019 budget? Just cut it, says Sotto

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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:23:38 +0000

‘Insertions’ in 2019 budget? Just cut it, says Sotto

Senator Vicente Sotto III offered a solution as he defended Budget Secretary Diokno from claims he was behind the P75 billion insertion in the 2019 budget.

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Lacson says he’s enjoying unfolding revelations concerning budget

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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:28:54 +0000

Lacson says he’s enjoying unfolding revelations concerning budget

Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Wednesday that he is enjoying the successive revelations concerning alleged irregularities with the proposed 2019 budget.

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Infra ‘insertions’ in 2019 budget P75B, not P51.8B — Diokno

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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:44:06 +0000

Infra 'insertions' in 2019 budget P75B, not P51.8B — Diokno

The controversial infrastructure budget in the 2019 budget was P75 billion, not P51.8 billion, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said.

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House to summon ‘favored’ contractor behind multi-billion projects

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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:20:07 +0000

House to summon ‘favored’ contractor behind multi-billion projects

The House of Representatives will subpoena Consolacion T. Leoncio—the owner of the Bulacan-based construction firm, CT Leoncio Construction and Trading—which bagged 30 government projects worth billions of pesos in 2018 according to a House leader.

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Palace on budget insertions, favored contractor: Just an allegation

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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:24:57 +0000

Palace on budget insertions, favored contractor: Just an allegation

The claims of Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. that at least P50 billion were inserted in the 2019 national budget and that the Palace favored a certain contractor were mere allegations for now, Malacañang said Tuesday.

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Andaya: Lawmakers are off limits in P16-B budget for LGUs

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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 09:12:02 +0000

Andaya: Lawmakers are off limits in P16-B budget for LGUs

House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Friday assured that lawmakers would not have any control in the distribution of the P16-billion allocation for the assistance to local government units (Algu) in the proposed budget for 2019.

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