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(Eagle News) –President Rodrigo Duterte will veto unconstitutional items in the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement after Senator Panfilo Lacson said the proposal ratified by both the Senate and the House of Representatives was still not pork-free. “(The) provisions in the budget that run counter to the Constitution will be vetoed by the President. There is no change in that policy,” Panelo said. In a statement issued […]
(Eagle News)–A Palace official on Wednesday, April 17, said he foresees no “retaliation” on the part of the House of Representatives for President Rodrigo Duterte’s veto of P95.3 billion worth of items in the national budget. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles issued the statement days after Duterte scrapped the items which included what the Senate said were illegal alignments made by the House after Congress ratified its version of the budget bill. Duterte also subjected to […]
(Eagle News)–Senators Panfilo Lacson and Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, April 15, lauded President Rodrigo Duterte’s veto of more than P95 billion worth of items in the budget bill, which he has signed. In a statement, Lacson, who has been very vocal against what he said were the “illegal alignments” made by House lawmakers, commended Duterte and his economic managers “for coming up with a ‘pork-free’ national budget.” “I have to see the veto message first […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed a bill that, if passed into law, would have granted survivorship benefits to dependent children of a deceased member of constitutional bodies who was a solo parent. In a radio interview, Senate President Tito Sotto said according to Duterte, passing the bill into law would have disrupted the Salary Standardization Law and other pensions. At present, under Republic Act 10084, survivorship benefits are only granted only to the legitimate […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Tito Sotto on Friday, April 12, said he would support a veto by President Rodrigo Duterte of the entire budget bill for 2019. “Do (you) remember that that was my original suggestion when it came to my attention that the House leaders were being difficult,” Sotto said a day after President Duterte said he would do the same “pag talagang tagilid yan,” referring to the Congress-transmitted budget bill. Duterte said […]
