Economic managers to recommend special session on 2019 budget
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:44:39 +0000
ECONOMIC managers, led by Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, will recommend to President Rodrigo Duterte to call for a special session of Congress to deliberate on the 2019 national budget.
“There is a possibility that the President may call for a special session to fix the budget. We will recommend the special session to the President soon…,” Diokno told reporters in a press briefing.
Diokno’s statement came after Senate leaders announced that they would be working on a December 13 approval to allow President Duterte to sign the final General Appropriations Act (GAA) before the year ends.
The Senate initially complained that it did not have enough time to go over the proposal as Congress would be going on a break in December, saying that the GAA would only be passed by the first week of February at the latest.
The House of Representatives passed the budget bill last November 20. MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO
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