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Tag: Koko Pimentel

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Unpacking Maharlika Investment Fund’s urgent legislation
    Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Unpacking Maharlika Investment Fund’s urgent legislation

    By VERA Files  |  Jun 14, 2023 5:19 PM

    Even after Congress has approved the bill creating the multibillion-peso Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), questions about its constitutionality remain, particularly on President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s reason certifying it as urgent.

    Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Koko Pimentel, Maharlika Investment Fund, Mark Villar

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Unpacking Maharlika Investment Fund’s urgent legislation
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Maharlika Investment Fund — pagsusuri ng apurahang batas

    By VERA Files  |  Jun 14, 2023 5:19 PM

    Anong emergency ang gustong matugunan nang madalian ng MIF? Ano ang itinuturing na pampublikong kalamidad o emergency? Emergency ba ang kahirapan? Narito ang apat na bagay na kailangan mong malaman.

    Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Koko Pimentel, Maharlika Investment Fund, Mark Villar

  • Migz Zubiri
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Zubiri na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds para sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan hindi totoo

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 01, 2022 12:29 PM

    Mali ang pahayag ni Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri noong Nob. 7 na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan.

    2023, commission on audit, Confidential and Intelligence Funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • Migz Zubiri
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri inaccurately claims that confidential funds can be used for repair of classrooms

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 01, 2022 12:29 PM

    A 2015 Commission on Audit (COA) set of guidelines defines confidential expenses as lump sum amounts for “surveillance activities in civilian government agencies.” It categorically states that “in no case shall (confidential or intelligence funds) be used for … construction or acquisition of buildings or housing structures.”

    2023, commission on audit, Confidential and Intelligence Funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Tatlong bagay na kailangan mong malaman tungkol sa mga confidential at intelligence fund

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

    Inaprubahan ng Senado noong Nob. 23 ang panukalang P5.27 trillion na pambansang budget para sa 2023. Ni-realign nito ang hindi bababa sa P170 milyon na confidential na pondo ng iba’t ibang ahensya ng gobyerno sa kanilang maintenance at iba pang operating expenses.

    2023, commission on audit, confidential funds, Department of Budget and Management, Edcel Lagman, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, General Appropriations Act, house of representatives, intelligence funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds
    Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

    What are confidential and intelligence funds? For what can these be used?

    2023, commission on audit, confidential funds, Department of Budget and Management, Edcel Lagman, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, General Appropriations Act, house of representatives, intelligence funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • Koko Pimentel
    Categories Commentary

    Pimentel call to scrap excessive intel funds falling on deaf ears

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Nov 21, 2022 11:30 AM

    Where does the Marcos administration’s policy to “exercise prudent macroeconomic and fiscal management in prioritizing expenditures” apply?

    confidential fund, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., intel funds, Koko Pimentel, Marcos Jr. administration, Sara Duterte-Carpio

  • Robin Padilla
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robin Padilla wrongly claims SC has ‘decided’ on PDP-Laban chairmanship row

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 23, 2022 10:38 PM

    The PDP-Laban’s leadership squabble in the 2022 elections has not been raised to the Supreme Court.

    Alfonso Cusi, Koko Pimentel, Manny Pacquiao, PDP-Laban, Robin Padilla, Rodrigo Duterte, supreme court

  • Robin Padilla
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robin Padilla mali sa pagsabing ‘nagdesisyon’ na ang SC sa isyu ng PDP-Laban chairmanship

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 23, 2022 10:38 PM

    Sa pagdinig ng subcommittee ng Senado sa panukalang budget ng hudikatura para sa 2023, sinabi ni Sen. Robinhood Padilla na “nagpasya” na ang Korte Suprema sa isyu ng chairmanship sa pagitan ng dalawang paksyon sa Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban). Ito ay hindi totoo.

    Alfonso Cusi, Koko Pimentel, Manny Pacquiao, PDP-Laban, Robin Padilla, Rodrigo Duterte, supreme court

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