Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:14:45 +0000
House appropriations committee chair Rolando Andaya Jr. on Thursday questioned Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno’s insistence that the government could impose cash-based budgeting even after it was deleted in the approved 2019 spending budget.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:26:18 +0000
ILOILO CITY–Sen. Franklin Drilon on Monday said the restoration of P75 billion in’ pork’ to the proposed 2019 budget can only be possible if there are savings at the end of the year.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:43:23 +0000
MANIBudget Sec. Benjamin Diokno tried to “buy” and “bribe” the House of Representatives in the amount of P40 billion to “shut up”
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 06:42:01 +0000
The House of Representatives issued a subpoena against Budget Sec. Benjamin Diokno after failing to attend the hearings into the budget issue five times.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 02:52:12 +0000
The alleged billions worth of “pork” insertions by congressmen and some senators have been retained in the 2019 national budget, Lacson said
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 05:42:56 +0000
“Let us not preempt the President.”
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 06:10:04 +0000
Malacañang will not heed the demand of Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. to give a report on government savings in 2018 in exchange for the bicameral approval of this year’s spending bill.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 08:36:02 +0000
Senators defended the institutional amendments in the proposed 2019 national budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 03:07:52 +0000
Senator Ralph Recto admitted introducing own amendments to the budget, including P68 billion worth of “institutional” amendments that are not part of Malacanang’s submission to Congress.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 02:42:58 +0000
Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. said about P50 billion in public funds have remained “stagnant” because of revisions in the rules of procurement.
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