Vice President Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Majority and minority members of the House of Representatives are on the same page--Vice President Sara Duterte should drop her "squid tactics" and answer the damning Commission on Audit...
Officials of the Department of Education(DepEd) are still accountable over how Vice President Sara Duterte utilized the P112-million confidential fund of the agency in 2023, Senate deputy minority leader Risa Hontiveros said on Tuesday, September 3. Hontiveros pointed this out after DepEd...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) "Suppression of public information" was what Vice President Sara Duterte sought to do when she tried--but failed--to prevent the Commission on Audit (COA) from submitting to Congress an audit...
Ombudsman Samuel Martires (Screenshot from YouTube live) For Ombudsman Samuel Martires, the benefit of having confidential funds just isn't worth the accompanying drama. Because of this, Martires asked on Tuesday night, Aug. 27 the House...
Vice President Sara Duterte (left), Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo (Facebook) Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo said that her revelation of the Office of the Vice President's (OVP) questionable spending of...
Pampanga 2nd district Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (left) and Vice President Sara Duterte (PPAB, Facebook) Former president and incumbent Pampanga 2nd district Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed disapproval of her House colleagues'...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Dexter Barro II) Vice President Sara Duterte--seemingly intent on having her way with the House Committee on Appropriations--participated in one of the most tense and bizarre budget hearings in recent memory on Tuesday, Aug....
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House Committee on Appropriations has issued on Tuesday, Aug. 13, a subpoena duces tecum requiring the Commission on Audit (COA) to submit to the panel the audit report on the...
The Office of the President (OP) is seeking once again a P4.56-billion confidential and intelligence fund from its proposed 2025 budget. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) Under the OP's proposed budget, the presidential office is retaining its confidential and intelligence...
DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The Marcos administration is asking for P2 billion less confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) under the P6.352-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) or proposed...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has ruled there was "no illegal use" by the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) of its P15 million confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) in 2013 as it lifted the Notice of Disallowance (ND) it had earlier issued. In an eight page ruling, the COA granted...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), and Vice President Sara Duterte (PPAB, Facebook) An "empty boast". That's how Makabayan solon ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro described Vice President...
