Tag: Duterte veto budget bill

Palace: Gov’t ready if Duterte vetoes entire budget bill

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, April 12, said the government was ready should President Rodrigo Duterte veto the 2019 budget bill in its entirety. Economic managers have prepared contingency plans “responsive to any conceivable event, and they will correspondingly adjust their targets, which include the execution of programs and projects relating to infrastructure as well as the delivery of basic services to the people,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, “while we are […]

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Andaya: Veto of entire budget bill will give President “opportunity to restore” Senate cuts on chief exec’s projects

(Eagle News)—House appropriations chair Rolando Andaya Jr. said the House of Representatives will respect whatever President Rodrigo Duterte decides to do with the 2019 budget bill. He said a veto, however, would give the chief executive the “opportunity to restore more than P80 billion” allegedly slashed by the Senate “from allocations intended for the President’s  projects.” He said he was “confident that the Office of the President would consider our exposés in their review of […]

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