Senator Joel Villanueva today July 13 said the Senate is always ready to work with the Executive branch in finding solutions on its plan to rightsize the bureaucracy. media Villanueva said the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) should identify which agencies could be rightsized and this...
Some senators are in agreement with the Department of Budget and Management’s (DBM) plan to streamline the bureaucracy, and remove or merge government agencies whose functions are already overlapping or are redundant. Returning Senators Loren Legarda and Francis “Chiz” Escudero said they...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is lukewarm to pending proposals in Congress seeking for the creation of new government departments. DOF Building in Manila Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, the government’s chief economic manager, explained that such proposals run counter to a global...