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The lawmaker said genuine transparency required dismantling the mechanisms that allow such insertions, rather than simply putting cameras on the proceedings.
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Marcos did not have to invent the leadership fund, but he failed to stop it, and such inaction in a system built on impunity is its own kind of authorship.
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Even in the National Expenditure Program (NEP), touted as the President’s proposed budget for next year, traces of lump sums suspiciously similar to pork…
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This jail guard who shoved and allegedly threw a punch at a former Quezon City lawmaker who tried to talk to reporters during a recent Sandiganbayan appearance…
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Why did a private entity take charge of the billions in public funds when a legitimate government agency was fully equipped to handle it?
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More than a third of every peso collected from every Filipino taxpayer goes not to a classroom or a hospital but to a bondholder.
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The Philippine economy remains on a growth path despite its slower expansion, with economic officials dismissing concerns that the country is slipping into…
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The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is supporting efforts to again open the bicameral conference committee deliberations on the proposed…
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Nosy Tarsee noticed the headcount when a certain solon convened 16 town mayors from his home province, plus three vice mayors, days after his birthday, which…
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Malacañang on Thursday said government agencies initially sought a combined P11 trillion for 2027 before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the proposed…
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The spending plan needed to put on a show because the flood control scandal blew the lid off a practice that had become normal: using the UA as a side door for…
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ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio criticized the Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget, saying it reflects a “mispriorization” of…
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After allocating no funds for flood control in the current national budget, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said Tuesday that P107.4 billion in…
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Senate Committee on Finance chairperson JV Ejercito on Tuesday vowed to block last-minute insertions and amendments during bicameral conference committee…
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Senate Committee on Finance chairperson JV Ejercito on Tuesday vowed to block last-minute insertions and amendments during bicameral conference committee…
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A state auditor told the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday that confidential funds entrusted to her office’s special disbursing…
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