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House concurs with Senate amendments on 2021 budget extension

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Posted at Dec 14 09:56 PM

The House of Representatives has concurred with the Senate’s amendments to House Bill No. 10373, which extends the validity of the 2021 budget by a year. Read more »

Panukalang pagpapalawig sa 2021 national budget, lusot na sa 2nd reading sa Senado

Robert Mano, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 07 10:59 PM

Lusot na sa ikalawang pagbasa ng Senado ang panukalang batas na magpapalawig sa paggamit ng 2021 national budget. Read more »

DBM: P690-B released for COVID-19 response as of September

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Posted at Oct 25 06:57 PM

A total of P690.26 billion has been released for the country's COVID-19 fight as of September 30, the Department of Budget and Management said Monday. Read more »

No funds for pandemic aid in 2021 budget if PH imposes hard lockdown: think tank

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 30 10:07 AM

The Philippine government may not be able to provide pandemic aid to the poor if it imposes anew a hard lockdown amid the presence of the virulent COVID-19 Delta variant, a think tank said Friday. Read more »

NDRRMC: P6 bilyon na lang ang natitira sa P20 bilyon na 2021 calamity fund

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Posted at May 03 12:58 PM

Nasa P6 na bilyon na lang ang natitira sa P20 bilyon na 2021 National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Fund, ayon sa National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Read more »

COVID-19 vaccines 'only solution' to jumpstarting economy: senator

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Updated as of Mar 08 09:58 AM

Vaccination against COVID-19 is the "only solution" the country has in jumpstarting its economy, a senator said Monday.   Read more »

Duterte office, Congress, DND top spenders of 2019 intel, confidential, miscellaneous funds: COA

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 13 10:57 PM

MANILA (UPDATED)— The Office of the President, Congress and the Department of National Defense were the top spenders of confidential, intelligence, and extraordinary and miscellaneous funds in 2019, the annual financial report of the Commission on Audit (COA) has revealed. Read more »

'Anti-epal' provision in 2021 national budget gets adopted

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Posted at Jan 06 02:47 AM

MANILA - Public officials may find it harder now to claim credit after a provision prohibiting attachment of their names, pictures, logos, signatures or other kinds of appearance on projects funded by the 2021 national budget, was officially adopted. Read more »

Duterte rejects cut in PAO forensic lab budget

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 30 12:22 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed a provision in the 2021 national budget that would have slashed the funds of the forensics laboratory of the Public Attorney's Office (PAO), which a lawmaker earlier said was unauthorized and a duplication.  Read more »

US may deny entry to foreign ofcl's who oppress journalists in spending law OK'd by Trump

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 10:38 PM

An explanatory statement for the law from the U.S. House of Representatives stated that "The Secretary of State shall apply subsection (c) to foreign government officials involved in threatening, wrongfully imprisoning, or otherwise depriving of liberty independent journalists who speak out or publish about official corruption or other abuses, including Maria Ressa in the Philippines and El Faro in El Salvador." Read more »

Duterte bars gov't agencies from directly using income

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Posted at Dec 29 04:27 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte vetoed provisions in the 2021 national budget that would have allowed government agencies to directly use their income, Malacañang said on Tuesday.    Read more »

Duterte refuses to report to Congress spending of intel funds

Joyce Balancio and Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 29 04:40 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has refused to tell Congress how intelligence funds in the 2021 national budget would be spent, according to a copy of his veto message that ABS-CBN News obtained on Tuesday.  Read more »

Duterte signs P4.5-trillion 2021 national budget

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 28 07:17 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday signed the country’s P4.506-trillion spending plan for 2021 which seeks to revive the economy ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic and improve the country’s response to the crisis. Read more »

Duterte nagpatawag ng pulong dahil sa bagong COVID-19 virus strain

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Updated as of Dec 25 08:31 PM

Nagpatawag si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ng pulong na gaganapin ngayong Sabado kasama ang Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases para pag-usapan kung paano dedepensa ang bansa mula sa panibagong coronavirus strain na natuklasan sa United Kingdom (UK). Read more »

Duterte, aides OK additional P3.5-billion budget for national ID registration

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Posted at Dec 16 12:21 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte and his Cabinet have approved additional budget to register 20 million more people to the national ID system next year, Malacañang said on Wednesday.    Read more »

Palace: Duterte may sign 2021 budget before Christmas

Miguel Dumaual, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 15 06:44 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte might sign before Christmas the 2021 national budget that includes war chest for the COVID-19 pandemic, Malacañang said on Monday, as it dismissed worries over a re-enacted spending plan.  Read more »

‘Walang sense of urgency’: Robredo camp hits gov’t vaccine budget

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Posted at Dec 14 12:36 AM

The government did not prioritize COVID-19 vaccination in the national budget for the coming year, the camp of Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, following a statement from a lawmaker that only P2.5 billion had been guaranteed for vaccines in the 2021 General Appropriations Act.  Read more »

Congress allots P620 million to cancer control program in 2021 budget

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Posted at Dec 13 09:37 AM

Congress allotted P620 million in the proposed 2021 national budget for government’s cancer control program, House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said Sunday. Read more »

Drilon questions higher 2021 funding for intel, anti-insurgency than COVID-19 vaccines

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 06:45 PM

MANILA - Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday questioned  why programmed allocations for intelligence and confidential funds, as well as the government's anti-insurgency program, are higher than funding for COVID-19 vaccines under the 2021 national budget.    Read more »

Lacson hits 'greedy' solons for prioritizing election interest over pandemic in 2021 budget

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 04:41 PM

Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Friday decried the "mangling" of the P4.5-trillion 2021 national budget, saying "not even the pandemic and its crippling effects could stop the greed of some lawmakers" from prioritizing their pet projects over COVID-19-response programs. Read more »