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Tag: budget

  • PIA photo. Marcos travel
    Categories Commentary

    Travel more, eat less

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Sep 11, 2023 11:30 AM

    The proposed 2024 budget shows the administration’s priorities for spending: a 58% increase in the president’s travel funds, while the agriculture sector gets a measly 6% more than its budget this year.

    budget, department of agriculture, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Marcos travels, travel fund

  • Categories Commentary

    Arrogance of numbers

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Sep 04, 2023 12:20 PM

    Because the administration’s allies have the numbers — a supermajority, in fact — Duterte can spend the OVP budget however she wants to. That’s their version of democracy.

    budget, office of the vice president

  • Bongbong Marcos
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Marcos na ang pagbibigay ng ‘ayuda’ ay kanyang ‘top priority’ nangangailangan ng konteksto

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 15, 2022 1:13 PM

    Sinabi ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na ang kanyang administrasyon ay naglalagay ng “patuloy na tulong” para sa proteksyong panlipunan at kabuhayan “sa tuktok” ng listahan ng prayoridad nito. Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.

    assistance, ayuda, bongbong marcos, budget, DOLE, DSWD, economy, ofws, OWWA, Pandemic, social protection, TUPAD

  • Bongbong Marcos
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos’ claim that giving ‘ayuda’ is his ‘top priority’ needs context

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 15, 2022 1:13 PM

    Although the Marcos administration placed “social protection” as one of its budget priorities for “human capital development,” Sonny Africa, executive director of the nonprofit IBON Foundation, noted that the total allocation for these programs in 2023 is P33.28 billion less than the P262.67 billion for 2022.

    assistance, ayuda, bongbong marcos, budget, DOLE, DSWD, economy, ofws, OWWA, Pandemic, social protection, TUPAD

  • Bongbong Marcos
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos kinokontra si Diokno sa pagbibigay ng ‘ayuda’ sa gitna ng COVID-19 crisis

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 11, 2022 1:42 PM

    Ang pahayag ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. kamakailan tungkol sa pagbibigay ng perang ayuda at subsidies sa gitna ng COVID-19 pandemic ay sumasalungat sa pananaw ni Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno sa usapin.

    2023, ayuda, Benjamin Diokno, budget, cash assistance, COVID-19, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., Pandemic

  • Bongbong Marcos
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos contradicts Diokno on giving ‘ayuda’ amid COVID-19 crisis

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 11, 2022 1:42 PM

    President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recent pronouncement on granting cash assistance and subsidies amid the COVID-19 pandemic runs counter to Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno’s view on the matter.

    2023, ayuda, Benjamin Diokno, budget, cash assistance, COVID-19, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., Pandemic

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: UP budget slashed by P2.5B NOT yet final

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 02, 2022 2:52 PM

    A video on Facebook (FB) is falsely claiming that the significantly reduced 2023 budget of the University of the Philippines (UP) system has been approved. On Aug. 26, an FB page published a video with the false headline that read: “Just In : Finally! Pres Marcos Vp Sara Tinanggalan Ng 2.5 Billion Pondo Ang Up […]

    budget, UP system

  • Budget cabinet meeting
    Categories Commentary

    Show that Congress is not a rubber stamp body through the 2023 budget

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Aug 29, 2022 6:04 PM

    Leaders of both houses of Congress were too quick to assure speedy deliberations on the P5.268-trillion proposed national budget for 2023. But wait, a deputy speaker is questioning the lack of transparency in the first full-year spending program of the Marcos presidency.

    bongbong marcos, budget, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

  • Categories News Vote 2013

    Requiring barangays to fund Oct 28 polls illegal, says group

    Oct 24, 2013 9:05 PM

    By DARLENE CAY THE Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas on Wednesday filed a motion for reconsideration after a local court denied its petition to declare as illegal the Commission on Elections’ directive requiring barangays to help fund the October 28 polls. The group, in its petition before the Manila Regional Trial Court, says the […]

    Barangay, budget, comelec, Echiverri, elections

  • Categories News Vote 2013

    Comelec fails to collect village poll funds

    Oct 22, 2013 11:12 PM

    By DARLENE CAY THE Commission on Elections has so far pooled a mere P102 million from barangays to augment funds for the October 28 elections, or only about a quarter of the amount the body poll would have collected if all the 42,028 barangays nationwide remitted their share. Only 17 percent or 6,981 villages turned […]

    Barangays, budget, comelec, elections

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