The Commission on Audit (COA) has reminded local government units (LGUs) against exceeding the "statutory limitation" on disbursements for extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses (EME) or discretionary funds taken out of their collected real property taxes (RPTs). It cited the case of...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte expressed her gratitude to Senator Imee Marcos for supporting her family amid the tensions between the latter and her cousin, House Speaker Martin Romualdez. (From left) Vice President Sara Duterte and Senator Imee Marcos (Photos from Office of...
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said the Department of Education’s (DepEd) request for confidential funds has been realigned to its voucher program. “I think yung [confidential funds] sa DepEd, nilagay nila sa voucher, school voucher system, and other...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co is looking into reports that the district of Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte was...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) Ako-Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co has insisted that unprogrammed funds are legal amid Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman’s petition before the Supreme Court (SC) questioning the controversial budget...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (left), Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (Screenshots from Zoom) Ako-Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co has fired back at Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman for questioning before the Supreme Court (SC) the additional...
Camarines Sur 3rd district Rep. Gabriel Bordado Jr. (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Camarines Sur 3rd district Rep. Gabriel Bordado Jr.'s "signing" of the petition that sought to junk the additional P449.5-billion unprogrammed funds in the 2024...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III said on Wednesday, Jan. 3 that he is targeting to file his petition before the Supreme Court (SC) on the unconstitutionality of the additional P450-billion unprogrammed funds in the 2024 national budget this week. "The target is this week but...
Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (Screenshot from Facebook) Independent minority solon Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman says that the recently enacted P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024 is constitutionally infirm and therefore must be...
From left to right: Expelled Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr., House of Representatives main building, House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Facebook, MANILA BULLETIN, Speaker's office) The year 2023 came and went, but not without a...
President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) President Marcos' decision to keep the unprogrammed funds in the P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024 is a "laudable Christmas gift to all Filipinos". Thus, said Ako Bicol...
It is a settled issue. This was how President Marcos reacted about the deletion of confidential funds from the 2024 national budget which affects the Office of the Vice President and Department of Education (DepEd). President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Yummie Dingding/PPA...
