Ask funds for body cams, PNP urged
If the Philippine National Police was able to be given funds to buy 48 bomb-sniffing dogs at a cost of ...
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Drilon admits seeking pork
SENATE President Pro Tempore Franklin Drilon admitted that he was among the senators who listed pet projects for funding under ...
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Palace, solon insist 2017 budget pork-free
MALACAÑANG on Thursday insisted that the P3.35-trillion national budget this year was compliant with a Supreme Court ruling that declared ...
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Ping: Solons got P5-b pork
SOME lawmakers were given up to P5 billion in “pork” allocations in the General Appropriations Act of 2017, Senator Panfilo ...
Read morePassage of funds ‘an era of budget credibility’
UNLIKE in the past administrations, there won’t be any abuses to the budget after President Rodrigo Duterte vowed the enactment ...
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Rody vetoes use of agencies’ income
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte barred several government agencies from using their incomes for next year after he vetoed certain provisions of ...
Read moreGovt readies P860.7-B infra budget
SEVERAL infrastructure projects to improve traffic decongestion, airport facilities, railway facilities, ports and school buildings gets P860.7-billion funding under the ...
Read moreNCR gets biggest slice of P3.35-t natl budget
DESPITE President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to pour more money to the countryside, the National Capital Region still gets the biggest ...
Read moreDebt audit ‘historic first’ in PH budget system
“A HISTORIC first in the history of the Philippine budget system.” This is how Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros described the ...
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Pro-poor budget signed
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday signed into law a P3.35-trillion national budget, the first spending plan under his administration, promising ...
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