
Lacson: Senate majority backs purging 2027 budget of 'Pork'
Senator Ping Lacson and the Senate majority bloc pledge to eliminate questionable allocations in the 2027 budget, focusing on transparency and reform in…
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Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on 2027 budget.

Senator Ping Lacson and the Senate majority bloc pledge to eliminate questionable allocations in the 2027 budget, focusing on transparency and reform in…
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The complete dissolution of the UniTeam coalition, shattered by the transactional rift between the Marcos and Duterte camps, further accelerated these…
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The scale of the problem became clear when the finance panel’s staff compared the NEP with the House bill and found that the number of DPWH projects had…
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A system in which each stage can say ‘verification isn’t my job’ is not a system of checks. It is a relay race where everyone runs a leg, and no one is…
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The President’s line-item veto remains the last institutional firewall. Whether he uses it or not, it will answer a question more consequential than any single…
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The sectoral groups challenged the House version of the P7.2-trillion budget, which passed on third reading 281 to 13, but with P180 billion more added for the…
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Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David calls for an end to political patronage, urging transparency and accountability in the 2027 national budget amid concerns over…
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Thirty-five Philippine business groups are urging Congress to remove budget insertions without technical justification from the proposed P7.2-trillion 2027…
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Deputy Speaker Ronaldo “Ronnie” Puno blamed executive agencies for errors in the proposed 2027 national budget after farm-to-market road projects worth…
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Thirty-five business groups have urged Congress to remove budget insertions without technical justification from the proposed P7.2-trillion national budget for…
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Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David urges the Senate to remove unjustified budget insertions from the proposed P7.2-trillion national budget for 2027.
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A Lalamove survey finds 62.4% of Filipino MSMEs plan to continue using AI in 2027 as businesses navigate rising logistics costs, faster delivery demands and…
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Romualdez’s fall would have left behind a convenient fiction: that the scandal was of one man’s making, and that his removal means the problem has been solved.…
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Citing expected recovery in Philippine economic activity as a key consideration in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ decision Thursday last week to deliver a…
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Raising interest rates is a tool for demand-driven price pressures, not for the supply-side shocks now at work: oil, food and weather.
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The proposed 2027 Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) budget is facing scrutiny over ₱455 billion in projects flagged for incomplete or questionable…
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'When the budget bill reaches the Bicam, as happened last year, there were many suspensions where lawmakers were whispering in a corner, away from the cameras.'
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