SENATE President Pro Tempore Franklin Drilon admitted that he was among the senators who listed pet projects for funding under the 2017 national budget...
MALACAÑANG on Thursday insisted that the P3.35-trillion national budget this year was compliant with a Supreme Court ruling that declared discretionary and lump sum...
SOME lawmakers were given up to P5 billion in “pork” allocations in the General Appropriations Act of 2017, Senator Panfilo Lacson said Wednesday.
“After all...
UNLIKE in the past administrations, there won’t be any abuses to the budget after President Rodrigo Duterte vowed the enactment of the P3.35-trillion national...
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte barred several government agencies from using their incomes for next year after he vetoed certain provisions of the P3.35-trillion General Appropriations...
SEVERAL infrastructure projects to improve traffic decongestion, airport facilities, railway facilities, ports and school buildings gets P860.7-billion funding under the approved 2017 national budget.
The...
DESPITE President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to pour more money to the countryside, the National Capital Region still gets the biggest chunk of his P3.35-trillion...
“A HISTORIC first in the history of the Philippine budget system.”
This is how Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros described the passage of the 2017 national...
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday signed into law a P3.35-trillion national budget, the first spending plan under his administration, promising huge increases in infrastructure...
THE Senate has included a provision in the 2017 national budget cancelling the need for patients seeking treatment in hospitals to present a PhilHealth...
THE P3.35-trillion 2017 national budget is now up for President Rodrigo Duterte’s signature on December 22, with increased allocation for infrastructure development, free education...