Some files of Cabral not in legal team’s possession
The legal team of the late Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral said boxes of documents containing information…
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The legal team of the late Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral said boxes of documents containing information…
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Debt service receives the ‘first cut’ of the budget, as it is funded first from available revenues, before allocations to agencies for programs such as…
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What drives senators and congressmen to steal amounts one cannot spend in a lifetime?
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Pinuna ng mga opposition lawmakers sa House of Representatives nitong Huwebes ang tinawag nilang “railroading” o pagmamadali sa pagpasa ng Bicameral Conference…
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President Marcos Jr. is set to sign the 2026 General Appropriations Bill on Monday, 05 January 2026, with a stern warning from a minority leader that it could…
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The emerging reality is that this budget will be devoid of the promised reforms after the massive corruption that perverted the past three Marcos General…
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Opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday slammed the “railroading” of the ratification of the Bicameral Conference Committee report on…
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For 2026, P250 billion in UA has been proposed, which watchdogs have linked to anomalous projects that prioritize vested interests over essential services like…
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The proposed spending plan for 2026, while more ‘orderly,’ still has huge provisions for the pork barrel through the unprogrammed appropriations, which…
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House appropriations committee chairperson Mikaela Suansing strongly belied Monday imputations by her colleague, Batangas Rep. Leandro Leviste, that lawmakers…
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The lechon sits at the centre of our holiday tables...and in my uneasy thoughts.
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‘When access to health care depends on a politician’s endorsement, something deeply wrong has taken root not only legally but morally.’
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Based on volumes of documents Batangas Rep. Leandro Leviste posted on his social media page, Nosy Tarsee pieced together a system of budget insertions in the…
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Malacañang has mounted a firm, albeit “desperate” defense against renewed allegations of large-scale budget insertions in the proposed 2025 national budget,…
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Malacañang was too quick to brand the allegations as “hearsay,” Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson said Friday, stressing that substantial evidence…
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As the Christmas season winds down and the lights dim across the provinces, questions linger over where public money flowed while the nation was distracted by…
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In the House of Representatives, pork swelled to almost double the National Expenditure Program.
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