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P17.9-billion ‘pork’ allegations vs. Senate ‘lazy, baseless’

Senate leaders on Wednesday denied claims that the 2026 national budget contains a P17.9 billion pork barrel allocation. Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson rejected...

Lawmaker slams Senate’s P17.9-billion ‘LGU pork’

Deputy Minority Leader Antonio Tinio on Tuesday slammed the Senate version of the 2026 General Appropriations Bill, exposing massive cuts to benefits for rank-and-file...

Cardinal David slams funds for ‘degrading’ MAIFIP

Former Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Kalookan Archbishop Pablo Virgilio Cardinal David warned lawmakers that patronage-based health and social assistance programs undermine...

Senate vows pork-free budget

Funding for medical program, farm-to-market roads flagged The Senate is prepared to “fight to the very end” to ensure that the 2026 budget is free...

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...

Lawmakers slam acquittal of Enrile, others in PDAF scam

House Deputy Minority Leader and Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima denounced the Sandiganbayan's acquittal of Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce...

Palace defends unprogrammed funds

Malacañang on Tuesday underscored the importance of unprogrammed appropriations (UAs), as calamity funds run low. In a press briefing, Palace Press Officer Claire Castro allayed...

Executive’s blank check: House’s billion-peso blunder

"The Constitution waits, and the clock ticks" STEP right up to the 2026 General Appropriations Bill, where P243.2 billion in “unprogrammed funds” plays a dazzling...

Elago, Lacson back move to scrap unprogrammed funds

House Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Sara Elago on Saturday raised alarm over the P243.2 billion in unprogrammed appropriations under the...

Lacson: Budget insertions dig not meant to single out senators

Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson urged fellow lawmakers Tuesday to treat revelations of massive budget insertions in the 2025 spending plan as a...

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...

Scapegoating

This is an AI-generated cartoon with the prompt: Generate a political cartoon in horizontal format of a ladder that is being sawn in half....

Ruffy Biazon found guilty in PDAF case

The Sandiganbayan found former lawmaker and reelected Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon guilty of graft in connection with the alleged misuse of his P2.7-million Priority...

AKAP not pork barrel, list vetted by DSWD

The Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP) is not pork barrel and neither are barangay officials responsible for the list of AKAP...
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