Where’s the master plan?
A master plan that addresses only rainfall and ignores garbage, housing and encroachment is not a comprehensive program that would respond to the worsening…
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A master plan that addresses only rainfall and ignores garbage, housing and encroachment is not a comprehensive program that would respond to the worsening…
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Each week the Court stays silent is a week the UA hardens into place, unquestioned, on its way to becoming law.
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The Supreme Court killed the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), the old pork barrel, in 2013.
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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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The House vows to retain safeguards on unprogrammed appropriations as it reviews the P111.984 billion in standby funds proposed under the 2027 national budget.
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Either the paperwork behind a P450-billion swing in the budget never existed or it exists and Congress has been withholding it from the Court reviewing its…
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The Supreme Court concluded oral arguments on petitions challenging the constitutionality of the 2024–2026 national budgets, directing Congress, the DBM, and…
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Raul Villanueva clarifies that petitions against the 2024 General Appropriations Act target only the sharp increase in…
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Among the issues the SC is asked to resolve is the nature of Unprogrammed Appropriations and how far Congress and the executive can stretch it.
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Without congressional authorization on the funds, even fully disbursed foreign loans sit inert.e
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