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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 […]