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(Eagle News) — The House appropriations committee on Tuesday, Jan. 29, approved a motion to issue a show-cause order against Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno. The show-cause order was due to Diokno’s failure to attend the Rep. Rolando Andaya-led panel hearings on alleged anomalies in the proposed national budget for 2019. Diokno, without naming names, had said he was told not to attend the hearings, following what he said was the abrasive questioning of congressmen during […]
The Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives has already formally endorsed for congressional approval the proposed P18.68-billion budget of the Department of Finance (DOF) under the new cash-based system in which the implementation of projects and the procurement of goods and services are done within the given fiscal year. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said the DOF budget for 2019 is 3 percent or P630 million lower than the appropriation for the […]
