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Bicam OKs P33B farm-to-market road funding

The Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed to allocate P33 billion for farm-to-market roads during the 2026 bicameral conference committee deliberations on...

Marcos swears in Toledo as acting DBM secretary

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has formally appointed veteran fiscal expert Rolando Toledo as acting secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). He took...

Ping: Check Senate progress on budget

Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson on Saturday urged the public to observe how the Senate has implemented transparency in its version of the...

DepEd’s school-based feeding program

The good news is that the Senate has approved a bigger budget for the Department of Education (DepEd) next year that will expand the...

National budget must be restored as development bible

As things stand, this country’s national budget process is in shambles. This has to be corrected as quickly as possible. The Great Flood Control Scandal...

Business group urges open bicam budget deliberations

Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), an industry-led advocacy group, is calling for increased transparency, including open bicameral conference committee deliberations, in the final stages...

Marcos allegedly begs Congress: ‘P100-b pang-proyekto lang po’

“Nobody is even shocked anymore” Congratulations, Philippines: your President (the guy who literally writes the national budget before breakfast) reportedly turned into a bicam beggar...

Cutting through the noise: Why Zaldy Co’s allegations still lack proof

“If the President were behind the alleged anomalies, why would he be the one to unveil them?” I've been watching the political circus unfold following...

Palace defends unprogrammed appropriations in national budget

Malacañang on Wednesday said the government cannot fully scrap unprogrammed appropriations (UA), saying these funds are necessary for emergencies and unforeseen expenses. “That may not...

DICT eyes blockchain system to boost budget transparency

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is preparing to launch a prototype blockchain platform aimed at improving transparency and accountability in the...

PBBM vows to smoke out tainted inserts

MALACANANG on Monday said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was not initially aware of the alleged P100-billion worth of individual insertions in the 2025 national...

DICT, lawmaker cite crucial value of blockchain tech

DEPARTMENT of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Henry Aguda and FPJ Panday Bayanihan party-list Rep. Brian Poe on Monday underscored blockchain technology as...

The web

"In the 2025 budget, the insertions on line items as well as unprogrammed appropriations resulted in the most corrupt budget in history" FACTS written about...

Angels and demons

"These investigations must not be allowed to take too long to conclude" THE PDAF congressional investigations of a decade ago was supposed to be the...
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