Senator Francis Tolentino on Thursday, November 9 urged the Senate to craft a law that would set guidelines and parameters concerning the use of confidential and intelligence funds (CIF). During the plenary debates on the proposed national budget for 2024, Tolentino said it is...
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Monday, October 9 proposed that the P50-million worth of confidential fund allocated to the Department of Agriculture (DA) under the 2024 national budget be realigned to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Philippine National Police (PNP) and other law enforcement...
The Senate Committee on Finance should consider banning the use of contingency funds to increase the confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) of civilian agencies under the proposed national budget for 2024. Sen. Risa Hontiveros suggested this to Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara...
Occidental Mindoro lone district Rep. Leody "Odie" Tarriela (Rep. Tarriela's office) "We echoed the pulse of the majority." Occidental Mindoro lone district Rep. Leody "Odie" Tarriela made this declaration Wednesday, Nov. 8 after seeing the results of OCTA...
Quezon City 3rd district Rep. Franz Pumaren (Facebook) Deputy Majority Leader Quezon City 3rd district Rep. Franz Pumaren stressed that the House of Representatives did the right thing in realigning confidential funds from the 2024 national budget. This,...
Vice President Sara Duterte welcomed the petition filed by legal and economic experts asking the Supreme Court to declare as unconstitutional the P125-million confidential funds transferred to her office in December 2022. Vice President Sara Duterte (OVP photo) In a video message on Tuesday, Nov....
WATCH: VP and @DepEd_PH Secretary Sara Duterte welcomed the move to discuss the legality of transferring funds. She expressed optimism that the "wisdom" of the Supreme Court will "finally resolve" the issue. (Video courtesy of DepEd) @manilabulletin https://t.co/ZdBrokJoRz...
Senators on Tuesday, November 7 sought an investigation into why details of their executive meeting was released to the media and who was the colleague or person responsible for the leak. This was after Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada stood up during the Senate’s plenary session to...
(Manila Bulletin Photo) Majority of Filipinos support Congress' decision to reallocate confidential funds to agencies dealing with national security concerns, a survey conducted by OCTA Research revealed. In the survey results released on Tuesday, Nov. 7, OCTA found that 57 percent agree with...
Youth group Anakbayan on Monday, Nov. 6, called out Senate President Miguel Zubiri to make the people's benefit "secured" in the deliberation of the 2024 proposed national budget. Photo credit to Anakbayan This came after Zubiri said that the 2024 national budget would be passed by the first week...
The University of the Philippines Diliman University Council (UPD UC) on Monday, Nov. 6, condemned the government for allocation of funds to the Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF) in the national budget for 2024. (UP Diliman) UPD UC said the House of Representatives' rejection of the...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Sunday, November 5 reiterated his stand that the Office of the President should be given zero intelligence funds under the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024. Pimentel insisted that departments or government...
