Tipping point
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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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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Former NEDA director general Solita Monsod has been highly critical of the current administration, which has faced intense scrutiny since the onset of the…
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The administration maintains President Marcos remains focused on routine governance, public service delivery, and anti-corruption digitalization efforts.
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The Supreme Court killed the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), the old pork barrel, in 2013.
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Former NEDA Director General Solita Monsod has called for sweeping reforms to the national budgeting process, describing the current Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.…
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TA former Department of Budget and Management (DBM) senior official said these programs become a debt of gratitude owed to a politician instead of the right of…
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There should be a proper process before projects are included in the NEP, including passing through the Municipal Development Councils and Regional Development…
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So what exactly died? Because this sounds like the pig is doing fantastic and is apparently more clever now.
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Instead, the budget is kept voluminous and splits a single road repair project into a half-dozen items, maintenance here, rehabilitation there, flood control…
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The House Committee on Appropriations has revised its schedule for deliberations on the proposed 2027 national budget following disruptions caused by recent…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said extreme rainfall brought about by climate change is becoming a “new normal” that the Philippines must…
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The money did not vanish. It reappeared under the Local Government Support Fund, in a line called financial assistance to local government units worth P34…
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The House Committee on Appropriations on Monday formally began deliberations on the proposed P7.2 trillion national budget for 2027, with committee…
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The lawmaker said genuine transparency required dismantling the mechanisms that allow such insertions, rather than simply putting cameras on the proceedings.
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Marcos did not have to invent the leadership fund, but he failed to stop it, and such inaction in a system built on impunity is its own kind of authorship.
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Even in the National Expenditure Program (NEP), touted as the President’s proposed budget for next year, traces of lump sums suspiciously similar to pork…
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Tinawag ni Senador Panfilo "Ping" Lacson noong Huwebes, 13 August, na mas masahol na bersyon ng pork barrel system ang tinaguriang "Leadership Fund."
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