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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Bakit kailangan ang confidential at intelligence funds?

Tinanggal ng House of Representatives ang confidential at intelligence funds (CIF) ng limang civilian agencies ng gobyerno, kasama ang Office of the Vice President (OVP) at Department of Education (DepEd), sa panukalang national budget para sa 2024.

Kinukwestyon ng ilang mambabatas ang P650-million CIF na hinihingi ng OVP at DepEd para sa 2024. Napuna rin ang P125-million “secret” funds na nakuha ng OVP noong 2022 mula sa contingent fund ng Office of the President at ang kawalan ng transparency sa pagkaubos nito sa huling 11 araw ng taon.

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On the House removing confidential and intelligence funds from five gov’t agencies in the proposed 2024 budget

CNN Philippines, ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro, Oct. 2, 2023

PRO13 Caraga PULIS PIO Facebook Page, Happening Now || Police Regional Office 13 122nd Police Service Anniversary with HON. SARA Z. DUTERTE, Vice President, Republic of the Philippines as Guest of Honor and Speaker, Oct. 4, 2023

Inday Sara Nation Facebook Page, “National Security is intertwined with Education” – Vice President Sara Duterte, Sept. 22, 2023

POLITISKOOP, POLITISKOOP with Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, Sept. 27, 2023

ABS-CBN News Channel, WATCH: Rep. Stella Quimbo on PH rice problems, Congress’ budget deliberations, Sept. 7, 2023

Presidential Communications Office, OES cites legal basis in releasing PhP221.424 million confidential fund for VP Duterte’s office,

Senate of the Philippines, Committee on Finance [Subcommittee “A”] (September 4, 2023), Sept. 4, 2023

House of Representatives, 19th Congress 2nd Regular Session #24 Budget – HB No. 8980 FY 2024 General Appropriations Bill (1-1), Sept. 25, 2023

 

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