Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) The plenary debate on the 2024 budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) was moved after Vice President Sara Duterte failed to appear at the House of Representatives Tuesday, Sept. 26 due to a "conflict...
Commodore Jay Tarriela (File photo) For the past 17 years, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) only received a total of P118,725,000 for its intelligence fund, an official disclosed on Tuesday, Sept. 26, as lawmakers are pushing to increase the agency's budget to better secure the country's coastlines...
Vice President Sara Duterte (left), Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (Facebook) Liberal Party (LP) President Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman cited four reasons why he thinks the Department of Budget and Management's (DBM) "transfer or release" of...
The Office of the Vice President (OVP) has not received an audit observation memorandum (AOM) from the Commission on Audit (COA), its spokesman Reynold Munsayac said on Monday, Sept. 25, amid questions on how the OVP spent its controversial 2022 confidential funds. Vice President and Education...
House of Representatives (MANILA BULLETIN) A special oversight committee must be formed in a bid to bost transparency in the use of controversial confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) by government agencies. Committee on Appropriations Senior Vice...
Marikina City 2nd Rep. Stella Quimbo (PPAB) The Office of the Vice President (OVP) spent P125 million worth of confidential funds in just 11 days, and not 19 days as previously thought. Thus, bared Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo...
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel (Rep. Manuel's office) The usually stoic Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel was visibly elated to learn Tuesday night, Sept. 19 that the Department of Tourism (DOT) had no allocation for confidential funds in the...
Marikina City 2nd Rep. Stella Quimbo (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Contributed photo, MANILA BULLETIN) (Contributed photo) Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo insisted on Monday, Sept. 18 that there was nothing wrong with the Office of the...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, September 18 said the Executive department’s multiple attempts to explain the controversial confidential funds that were transferred from the Office of the President (OP) to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) last year are raising more questions about its...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) A day after admitting that they can't prove Vice President Sara Duterte misused P125 million in confidential funds last year, Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas said Saturday, Sept. 16 that the...
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go said on Saturday, Sept. 16, that he highly trusts that Vice President Sara Duterte can implement the programs of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education (DepEd) without wasting any public funds. This in relation to the OVP's confidential...
Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas (left), ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro Makabayan bloc solons have admitted that they don't have any proof as to the alleged misuse of confidential funds by the Office of the Vice President (OVP). What...
