CHAINSAW SOLUTION
‘This unconstitutional framework, where UAs are chained to the GAA, is so massive that it would not fit inside one suitcase, but several.’
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‘This unconstitutional framework, where UAs are chained to the GAA, is so massive that it would not fit inside one suitcase, but several.’
Carpio said Recto wrote to PhilHealth, requesting the transfer of the funds to the National Treasury, as the funds would be used for government infrastructure…
In the Marcos budgets, however, the UA mutated into a receptacle to allow the insertion of the pork barrel in the budget with guaranteed funding.
The Constitution has no provisions that contemplate the UA; thus, the justice said the SC is duty-bound to nullify it.
‘The UAs are vulnerable to the exercise of discretion. In effect, they’re discretionary funds that do not pass the scrutiny of Congress, and it is up to the…
Placing the FAPs in the UA has President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. eating his words before the investor community about the importance of the key infrastructure…
A master plan that addresses only rainfall and ignores garbage, housing and encroachment is not a comprehensive program that would respond to the worsening…
Recto was a member of the Bicameral Conference Committee during the drafting and reconciliation of the 2024 national budget.
Either the paperwork behind a P450-billion swing in the budget never existed or it exists and Congress has been withholding it from the Court reviewing its…
To implement the law, Ralph Recto, who was then finance secretary, issued a directive to compel GOCCs to transfer ‘excess,’ ‘idle,’ or ‘fund balance’ reserves…
Budget watchdogs question the 2026 P6.79-trillion Philippine budget, highlighting Unprogrammed Appropriations, delayed health worker allowances, and skewed…
The hapless and helpless poor Filipinos that constitute the greatest majority of the nation can only say: ‘The crooks want to govern our country forever!’
There’s little room for them to insert themselves or receive kickbacks from big-ticket infrastructure projects, so it’s not a priority for legislators.
Recto has defended the transfer of excess funds, including P89.9 billion from PhilHealth and P117 billion from the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp, saying he…
I’m sorry to say, even the President, when he said ‘Mahiya naman kayo,’ that’s a little strange because it was his budget to begin with.
‘That’s exactly what puzzles me — those who should have spoken up about this didn’t say anything. At the very least, there should have been some protest.’
Typhoons will not stop as a result of the scandal engulfing the nation. Still, the ongoing scandal has placed the concessionary loans in peril.
