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Sec Villar: P75B more for DPWH underwent budget process

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 03:15 PM

Questions over the P75 billion have delayed the passage of the 2019 budget and Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno and House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr have sparred in public over it. Read more »

Budget battles: DBM unit bid out P168-B in 'Dengvaxia-like' scheme, Andaya claims

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 11:21 AM

A "little office" under the Department of Budget and Management has bid out and implemented billions worth of projects despite its mother agency not having a mandate to do so, a lawmaker claimed Thursday. Read more »

Hanjin takeover? Diokno says more discussions needed

April Rafales, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 04:04 PM

The government's role is to secure the nation and "not do the direct production of whatever they use," Diokno said. Read more »

Deleting P75-B from DPWH budget may affect jobs, infra push, Diokno warns

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 16 06:51 PM

Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Wednesday said removing the P75 billion allegedly inserted in the 2019 national budget could affect jobs generation and the government’s Build, Build, Build program. Read more »

Diokno, Panelo belie Andaya claim there's no budget for Bangsamoro poll

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 09:27 PM

MANILA - Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno and Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Tuesday belied a lawmaker's claim that there are no funds for the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law.  Read more »

Pagpondo ng DBM sa flood control project kinuwestiyon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 09:20 PM

May ilan daw na mga lugar na nabigyan umano ng pondo kahit hindi naman binabaha.  Read more »

Palace: No need to worry after P75 billion removed from proposed public works budget

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 03:47 PM

MANILA - Malacañang on Tuesday said there was no need to worry even after the Senate deleted some P75 billion allegedly inserted into the Department of Public Works and Highways' (DPWH) proposed budget for 2019. Read more »

Agriculture likely grew 1 percent in 2018 due to storm damage

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 08:55 AM

Agriculture growth in 2018 missed the department's target with at least 12 storms lashing the country. It was lower than the 3.9-percent expansion in 2017, Piñol told ANC's Headstart.  Read more »

Fresh pay hike for state workers rests on 2019 budget OK: Diokno

Bruce Rodriguez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 14 08:53 PM

Diokno said he welcomed House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya's pleading before the Supreme Court for the salary hike to push through. Read more »

Palace: Congress holding salary hike hostage

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 14 04:21 PM

MANILA - Malacañang on Monday accused Congress of holding hostage the salary hike for government workers, as it backed Budget Secretary Diokno over the deadlock between the executive and legislative branches involving the proposed 2019 budget. Read more »

Solon asks SC: Order release of gov't pay hike

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 14 01:44 PM

House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya, Jr led about 50 government employees from the executive and the legislative in filing the class suit. Read more »

Fourth tranche of salary hike for gov’t workers out in February: DBM

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 11 06:23 PM

In a statement, the budget department assured that the increase would be implemented upon the approval of the 2019 general appropriations act.  Read more »

Budget chief content with procurement law, Duterte wants amendment: Koko

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 11 01:53 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte and his budget secretary, Benjamin Diokno, have differing views on the current Procurement Law, a lawmaker close to the chief executive said Friday. Read more »

Ombudsman: 'We have not seen any red flag' in Diokno-linked infra projects

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 10 09:04 PM

MANILA - Ombudsman Samuel Martires denied Thursday that his field investigators have noted “red flags” on supposed infrastructure contracts linked to the family of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, as House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. had alleged.    Read more »

Bam, Ping to Diokno: Funds for state workers' pay hike available in reenacted budget

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 10 03:50 PM

MANILA - Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno should use the reenacted budget to fund the fourth tranche of the salary hike for government workers, at least two senators said Thursday.    Read more »

Mga kawani ng gobyerno, may dagdag-sahod sa 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 10 01:26 AM

Tiniyak ni Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno na may dagdag-sahod ang mga empleyado ng gobyerno sa 2020. Read more »

Ombudsman neither confirms nor denies Andaya’s claim of Diokno probe

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 09 04:35 PM

MANILA - Ombudsman Samuel Martires on Wednesday refused to confirm nor deny a supposedly ongoing investigation involving Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, as revealed by House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya. Read more »

'Why are we wasting time?' Diokno asks solons as budget row drags

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 09 12:52 PM

Further delays in the approval of the General Appropriations Act could set back "essential" projects, said Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno.   Read more »

Duterte: What budget insertion?

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 08 03:39 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte came to the defense of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno over the latter’s tiff with House Majority Rolando Andaya Jr. involving the alleged “insertions” in the proposed 2019 national budget. Read more »

Budget battle intensifies: Solon threatens to take Diokno before SC over pay hike row

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 08 11:18 AM

A congressman threatened Tuesday to petition the Supreme Court to compel Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to implement another round of salary increase for government workers. Read more »