MMDA 2026 funding declines
The proposed 2026 budget for the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) flood control programs has dropped by a third, from P3.8 billion this year…
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The proposed 2026 budget for the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) flood control programs has dropped by a third, from P3.8 billion this year…
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Both chambers of Congress have expressed support for allocating an additional P12.3 billion to the country’s 113 state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the…
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Batangas 1st District Representative Leandro Legarda Leviste is at the forefront of efforts in the House of Representatives to secure additional funding for…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Friday called for a full record check and background investigation (RCBI) into Orly Regala Guteza, the…
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What began as whispers of irregularity in flood-control projects has exploded into what Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson described as a…
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Approximately seven million families risk losing assistance due to the budget cut for the program and zero funding for the once-controversial ‘Ayuda sa Kapos…
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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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Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco reiterated his claims about budget insertions, including the "sagasa" scheme, where funds are allocated to cities without the…
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What was once thought to be another run-of-the-mill corruption case has now been laid bare as a full-scale “inside job robbery” against the Filipino people,…
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Among the many ways the 2025 national budget was waylaid, according to a budget watchdog, was through the manipulation of the flagship poverty reduction…
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The report noted that when off-budget insertions and discretionary funds are included, total flood-related outlays for 2025 could reach P496 billion, nearly…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson on Monday blamed Congress for the “original sin” behind the widespread corruption and failure of flood control…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Monday blamed Congress as the “original sin” behind the widespread corruption and failure of the…
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Without insertions, he said, there would be no funds for corrupt DPWH officials ‘to play with or gamble away in casinos.’
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Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Sunday, 21 September, assured the public that all documents retrieved from former Department of Public Works and Highways…
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Senate President Pro Tempore is pushing to ban lawmakers from making insertions for infrastructure projects in the budget bill in a bid to prevent a repeat of…
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‘This will make it cumbersome to deliver large volumes of cash in SOPs, commissions, and payoffs from one corrupt government contractor or influence peddler to…
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