No budget safe with thieves
The sliver of fiscal space is almost exactly equal to what the government owes in interest payments alone for the coming year.
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The sliver of fiscal space is almost exactly equal to what the government owes in interest payments alone for the coming year.
What good is a constitutionally guaranteed right to life when the right to health remains financially unreachable?
The Makati Business Club and PCCI welcomed the 2026 national budget but raised concerns over unprogrammed allocations, urging stronger safeguards,…
House budget leaders assured the public that the 2026 national budget will curb corruption by removing flood control, road, and bridge projects from…
The danger resurfaces: a budget assembled in a room with the lights off, then presented afterward as though it had always undergone a thorough and open process.
It is a mystery where the money for a specific classroom goes; only that some large sum exists somewhere in the spending plan for classrooms.
What gets built, if anything at all, is a structure constructed badly, cheaply and often not where the people needed it — a waste layered on theft.
Solita Monsod calls for sweeping budget reforms, including abolishing unprogrammed appropriations and opening bicameral proceedings, as she warns corruption is…
Former NEDA Director General Solita Monsod has called for sweeping reforms to the national budgeting process, describing the current Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.…
One of the more notable omissions in President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recent State of the Nation Address was a renewed warning against tampering with the…
We will no longer allow last-minute insertions, particularly those made during the Bicameral Conference Committee.
Every peso diverted to a fake flood control project is a peso that didn’t pay for a guidance counselor, a school clinic, or to train campus professionals.
The 2026 General Appropriations Bill raises concerns over hidden pork, with unprogrammed appropriations, legislative “allocables,” and discretionary funds…
House Deputy Speaker Janette Garin says Congress must return P60 billion to PhilHealth through the 2026 budget to comply with a Supreme Court ruling, rejecting…
Affected by the removal of the subsidy were PhilHealth’s indirect contributors, who are the indigent, seniors, and people with disabilities.
‘Marcos also cannot claim ignorance about how the pork barrel system facilitates corruption, since he served for many terms as governor, congressman, and…
It is becoming clear that a conspiracy to steal public funds occurred, crossing party lines.
Following the decision of the House of Representatives to reject the amendment of Akbayan Representative Atty. Chel Diokno to reduce the P243 billion…
The bicam reversed an initial proposal of P74.43 billion for PhilHealth, later reduced to P64.42 billion by the Senate before it was scrapped entirely.
The devious partnership was intended to revive the pork barrel system that the Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional in a landmark 2013 decision.