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Duterte: Abuel to remain OIC of Budget department until the end of my term

(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will no longer appoint a permanent Budget secretary until the end of his term. According to Duterte, he would let Acting Secretary Janet Abuel lead the department as acting secretary until 2022. She is — spent her lifetime counting the money and dividing it among us. So I am not appointing a new — a regular appointment. Si ma’am will just act as OIC until I — in God’s time matapos […]

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Budget Department proposes P2.6 trillion budget for 2015

MANILA, Philippines — The budget department proposed a P2.606 trillion budget for 2015 during Friday’s Cabinet meeting, 15 percent higher than the 2014 national budget, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma said in a statement.President Benigno S. Aquino III directed the Cabinet to fine-tune the budget assumptions and planning parameters for next year’s budget, he said.The President convened the Cabinet on Friday for a first-pass review and discussion of the 2015 national budget.“After the […]

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