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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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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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If we really intend to do justice to the Filipino people who are the victims of the band of crooks and criminals at the House of ‘Representathieves,’ all those…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Saturday lauded the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for its new regulation capping large cash…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Saturday expressed deep frustration and anger over the misuse of public funds, vowing to pursue justice…
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Senators on Friday weighed in on the importance of cultural heritage and raised concerns about funding for a key institution during a budget hearing.
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Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Joel Villanueva remain entangled in allegations over questionable budget insertions totaling nearly P1 billion in the 2023 and…
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The Speaker did not attend those meetings; Poe was not allowed to attend most of those meetings. Co and Escudero were the ones who actually penciled in…
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Today’s ‘flood compact’ is the dark inversion, a pact of betrayal that bleeds the nation’s coffers and drowns the people in corruption.
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VP Sara expected the kind of questioning from Tinio and Co and she knew exactly how to deal with them.
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