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The Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator Sonny Angara, has endorsed for plenary approval Committee Report No. 332 which contains the P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022. This marks the start of lengthy plenary deliberations on the budgets of various government agencies and their...

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has urged state economic managers to reconsider allocating huge funds for the security sector for next year amid the “skyrocketing” national debt and a growing budget deficit. Drilon said he is dismayed at the negative growth in the social services sector...