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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Jan. 6, signed the P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020. Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate finance committee, said the Department of Public Works and Highways received a net increase of P51.139 billion under the General Appropriations Act. “The idea is to complete as many projects as possible by the time President Duterte ends his term in 2022,” Angara said. Earlier, the Palace said President Duterte would veto what […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate and the House of Representatives have ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020. The ratification came only hours after the committee approved the report in Manila Polo Club in Makati. The ratification pushed through despite Senator Panfilo Lacson’s statement the proposal was not pork-free. In a statement, Lacson said the House had made “last-minute insertions” using a “source file” or a list of […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate has approved the proposed 2020 national budget on third and final reading. Twenty-two senators voted in favor of the P4.1-trillion proposed budget, which President Rodrigo Duterte had certified as urgent. No one abstained. With the approval, the proposal will be tackled in the bicameral committee. The Senate contingent will be composed of Senator Sonny Angara, Senate finance panel chair; and Senators Panfilo Lacson, Cynthia Villar, Pia Cayetano, Bong Go, Imee Marcos, […]
(Eagle News)–The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading the P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020. The vote was 257-6, without any abstention. President Rodrigo Duterte had certified as urgent the proposed national budget. Last year, the House and the Senate figured in a budget impasse, prompting the government to operate with a reenacted budget in the first few months of this year. The President signed the budget in April. For 2020, the […]
(Eagle News)–House Deputy Speaker for Finance Luis Raymund Villafuerte has confirmed he moved for the withdrawal of the 2020 General Appropriations Bill, saying the bill was “prematurely filed.” In justifying the withdrawal from the plenary of House Bill 4228 which was filed on Aug. 28 by the House committee on appropriations, Villafuerte noted that the presentation of the budget proposals of all government offices before the House panel “have yet to be completed at the time […]
