Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:24:18 +0000
No more budget “insertions” written on table napkins.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:30:04 +0000
Congress ratified the spending bill on Friday, and the next step is for the President to sign it into law.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:38:23 +0000
It’s up to President Rodrigo Duterte to purge his P3.8-trillion national budget for 2019 of pork, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Wednesday.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:34:24 +0000
DPWH employees who testified during the resumption of the House of Representatives inquiry into the unrequested funds said Pangandaman summoned them to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM)
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:23:42 +0000
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno has at his disposal P740 billion in unspent funds from the last two years, enough to influence May’s midterm elections, Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr., the House appropriations committee chair, said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:05:11 +0000
An exasperated Sen. Panfilo Lacson is counting on President Rodrigo Duterte to make this year’s national budget pork-free, after conceding that legislators who insisted on keeping the draft P3.8-trillion spending bill larded with “insertions” are just “incorrigibly insatiable.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:33:39 +0000
Sen. Loren Legarda on Monday said the Senate-House conference committee had agreed to break the impasse over the P3.8-trillion proposed spending bill for 2019, easing worries that the Duterte administration would have to make do with a reenacted 2018 budget this year.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 04:34:04 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The practice of inserting ‘pork barrel’ funds in the country’s national budget would be eliminated if a Master Development Plan is adopted, Magdalo party-list Rep. Gary Alejano said on Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:24:13 +0000
The prospect of a reenacted budget loomed large on Sunday after the House of Representatives issued an ultimatum to Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno 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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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:22:49 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Sunday said he might refer the budget deadlock to the Supreme Court after Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s allies accused him of turning a blind eye to other senators’ alleged “pork” in the stalled P3.8-trillion proposed spending bill for 2019.
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