Marikina City 2nd Rep. Stella Quimbo (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) A total of 11 agencies were affected by the House of Representatives' rationalization of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) in the P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) or...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co has expressed confidence that the realignments to the confidential funds would be adopted in the bicameral...
The national government spent P3.67 billion and P5.66 billion in confidential and intelligence funds, respectively, in 2022, the Commission on Audit (COA) disclosed in its Annual Financial Report (AFR) on national government agencies. The government's use of confidential and intelligence funds...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Five agencies--including a combined three that are directly under the control of the top two officials of the land--will be stripped of their confidential funds under the P5.768-trillion General...
Marikina City 2nd Rep. Stella Quimbo (left) Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Ranking solons from the Committee on Appropriations have denied allegations that the House of Representatives has P1.6 billion in confidential...
Marikina City 2nd Rep. Stella Quimbo (left), Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (PPAB, Facebook) Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo's stance on controversial topics like Vice President Sara Duterte's confidential fund allocation as well as the...
Filipino youth groups condemned Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte for her statement regarding the use of Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF) for the country's “security and peace.” Inday Sara Duterte/Facebook Progressive group Anakbayan, in a statement issued Oct. 6,...
Marikina City 2nd Rep. Stella Quimbo (PPAB) The "small committee" in the House of Representatives is endeavoring to "correct" the allocation of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) in the P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) or proposed national...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) Vice President Sara Duterte herself had said that she would follow Congress' discretion as to the fate of her confidential funds in the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024. House Speaker Martin Romualdez...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Speaker’s office, Facebook) As far as House Speaker Martin Romualdez is concerned, he and Vice President Sara Duterte are on the same page when it comes to how confidential and intelligence...
Senators on Thursday, October 5 told officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to forego the P50-million confidential funds allocated to the agency under their proposed 2024 national budget. Sen. Cynthia Villar, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, and Sen. Raffy Tulfo...
Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) In an obvious jab at Vice President Sara Duterte, Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman said on Thursday, Oct. 5 that schools should be "temples of knowledge" and not "arenas of...
