(MANILA BULLETIN) The planned realignment of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) in the P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) isn't solely for the purpose of addressing the West Philippine Sea (WPS) issue. Committee on Appropriations...
(Unsplash) House Deputy Minority leader and Makabayan bloc member ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro proclaimed "partial success" over the much-disputed issue of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) in the propsosed 2024 national budget. “Sa tingin...
Marikina City 2nd Rep. Stella Quimbo (Contributed photo) At least 10 agencies will be affected by the House leadership's planned realignment of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) in the P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) or proposed...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) Davao de Oro 1st district Rep. Maria Carmen Zamora says the Office of the Vice President (OVP) welcomes the audit observation memo (AOM) from the Commission on Audit (COA). During the House plenary debate on the...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Wednesday, Sept. 27, thanked members of the House of Representatives, including the principal sponsor of the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) proposed P2.3-billion budget for 2024, after heated budget deliberations. (From left, 1st row)...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) The Office of the Vice President (OVP) spent its confidential funds worth P125 million in 19 days--not 11 as previously discussed in the budget plenary debates in the House of Representatives. OVP budget sponsor, Davao...
Vice President Sara Duterte (rightmost, bottom row, sitting) listens to Davao de Oro 1st district Rep, Maria Carmen Zamora's (standing) defense of the OVP budget for 2024. (Screenshot from YouTube live) The Office of the Vice President (OVP) will "submit to the...
House of Representatives (PPAB) Citing the "escalating threats in the West Philippine Sea (WPS)", ranking members of the House of Representatives have made a "collective decision" to reallocate confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) that were originally...
Davao del Norte 1st district Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) Vice President Sara Duterte's sought confidential funds are better off given to "more appropriate" agencies like National Security Council (NSC)....
Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) The plenary debate on the 2024 budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) was moved after Vice President Sara Duterte failed to appear at the House of Representatives Tuesday, Sept. 26 due to a "conflict...
Commodore Jay Tarriela (File photo) For the past 17 years, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) only received a total of P118,725,000 for its intelligence fund, an official disclosed on Tuesday, Sept. 26, as lawmakers are pushing to increase the agency's budget to better secure the country's coastlines...
Vice President Sara Duterte (left), Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (Facebook) Liberal Party (LP) President Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman cited four reasons why he thinks the Department of Budget and Management's (DBM) "transfer or release" of...
