DBM, ES failed PBBM
The insertions were made in Congress, which means they couldn’t have been done by accident.
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The insertions were made in Congress, which means they couldn’t have been done by accident.
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Filipinos are not asking for seminars. They are asking why billions slipped through DBM’s watch, and who will be held accountable.
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Senator Bam Aquino urged the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to ramp up the government’s scholarship…
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The Office of the Ombudsman has directed Mayor Lorelie Pacquiao and four other city officials to respond to graft complaints over the…
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PBBM, if I recall right, had proudly claimed that he had read cover-to-cover the more than 4,000 pages of the proposed GAA. He gave it his imprimatur.
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Amenah!? What you don’t have people? You’ve got thousands in your big offices, air-conditioning, coffee machines, and not one person to suspect P600 million…
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‘We should allocate more funds for the health of every Filipino,’ Go said. ‘When one family member is sick, the whole family suffers.’
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Trillions of pesos don’t vanish because a hundred million Filipinos blinked away; they vanish because one person signs yes.
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The widespread practice of subcontracting often reduces government projects to layers of hand-offs, with each layer eroding accountability.
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The Department of Agriculture (DA) is pushing Congress to restore and expand the purchasing powers of the National Food Authority (NFA) to strengthen food…
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Centerways secured P5.16 billion in flood control contracts from 2021 to 2024, with many projects concentrated in Sorsogon, Escudero’s home province.
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Engr. Arthur Escalante, another current board member and owner of AN Escalante Construction Inc., was also reported to have obtained government contracts.
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The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has endorsed a recent study by the Unilab Center for Health Policy (UCHP) highlighting gaps in how local…
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To suggest the DBM has no duty to spot recycled or bloated items is like claiming the cashier at a bank can hand over counterfeit bills and say, sorry, I’m not…
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Diokno, the mentor of Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman, was accused by Andaya of inserting P75 billion worth of infrastructure projects primarily in the…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. asked governors to help implement ‘zero balance billing’ in public hospitals so that patients no longer need to pay for their…
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The leadership of the House of Representatives is eyeing to return to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) the “poorly constructed” 2026 budget amid…
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Members of Congress are allowed to add P150 million worth of projects each to the 2026 budget.
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