If members of the House of Representatives think they can scare Malacañang with a reenacted budget, they are mistaken. The Palace, according to presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, will never cave in to the demand of the supermajority in the House to drop the shift to cash-based budgeting in 2019. President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in the […]
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Read moreTHERE will be no reenacted budget for 2019 even with the indefinite suspension of deliberations on the proposed P3.7 trillion cash-based allocation at the House of Representatives, Rep. Karlo Nograles of Davao City said on Sunday. “We don’t want a reenacted budget. Discussions on reenacted budget only happens when it is already December and the […]
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Discontent had been growing in the House of Representatives long before the coup that erupted on Monday and led to the downfall of Pantaleon Alvarez and the rise, once again, of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
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