FACT SHEET: Unpacking Maharlika Investment Fund’s urgent legislation
What emergency does the MIF seek to address urgently? What is considered a public calamity or an emergency? Is poverty an emergency? Here are four things you need to know.
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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Maharlika Investment Fund — pagsusuri ng apurahang batas
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.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Zubiri na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds para sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan hindi totoo
Mali ang pahayag ni Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri noong Nob. 7 na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri inaccurately claims that confidential funds can be used for repair of classrooms
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.”
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Tatlong bagay na kailangan mong malaman tungkol sa mga confidential at intelligence fund
Ano ang mga confidential at intelligence funds at para saan ito magagamit?
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds
What are confidential and intelligence funds? For what can these be used?
Pimentel call to scrap excessive intel funds falling on deaf ears
Where does the Marcos administration's policy to "exercise prudent macroeconomic and fiscal management in prioritizing expenditures" apply?
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robin Padilla wrongly claims SC has ‘decided’ on PDP-Laban chairmanship row
The PDP-Laban’s leadership squabble in the 2022 elections has not been raised to the Supreme Court.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robin Padilla mali sa pagsabing ‘nagdesisyon’ na ang SC sa isyu ng PDP-Laban chairmanship
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.