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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 »

Debt, budget deficit levels rising but remain manageable: Finance chief

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 12 06:10 PM

The Philippines’ rising debt and budget deficit levels remain manageable and sustainable, the Department of Finance said on Tuesday.    Read more »

Government debt hits P10.13 trillion in end-November

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 06 04:36 PM

Since January last year, domestic debt has increased by P2.06 trillion or 40.3 percent, while foreign debt increased by P338.44 billion or 13 percent. Read more »

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

ABS-CBN News
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 »

Pagpapalawig sa effectivity ng 2020 budget, Bayanihan 2, pirmado na ni Duterte

Joyce Balancio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 05 09:12 PM

Extended na hanggang ngayong taon ang effectivity ng 2020 national budget at ang Bayanihan to Recover as One Act o Bayanihan 2.  Read more »

Ilang LGUs naghahanda ng sariling COVID-19 vaccine supply

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 02 06:45 PM

Ang Maynila, nagsasagawa na ng pre-registration para sa libreng pagpapabakuna kontra COVID-19 para sa mga residente nila. Read more »

DOF says state-run firms remit P160 billion in dividends to Treasury

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 30 07:24 PM

State-run firms remitted P160.6 billion in dividends to the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) this year to add to the country's war chest against COVID-19, the Department of Finance (DOF) said Wednesday. 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 »

Pag-uulat tungkol sa intel funds ng 2021 budget inayawan ni Duterte

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 30 12:25 AM

Ang mga aktibidad patungkol sa intelligence gathering ay dapat umanong direktang inire-report lamang sa Pangulo.  Read more »

Duterte bars gov't agencies from directly using income

ABS-CBN News
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 »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: December 28, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 12:36 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Duterte greenlights P4.506-trillion 2021 Philippine budget

Alfred Frias, Presidential Photo
Posted at Dec 28 11:15 PM

President Duterte flashes his signature pose following the ceremonial signing of the 2021 General Appropriations Act (GAA) at the Malacañan Palace. 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

ABS-CBN News
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 to veto portions of P4.5-T 2021 national budget: spokesperson

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 25 04:22 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte will "surely" veto several portions of the P4.5-trillion 2021 national budget, his spokesman said Friday, a week before the chief executive signs the spending bill into law. Read more »

Jan-Nov budget deficit exceeds P1T on weak revenue collection, spending uptick

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 23 12:21 PM

MANILA - The Philippine budget gap from January to November breached the P1-trillion mark as tax and non-tax revenue collections remained weak amid slight improvement in government spending, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said Wednesday.   Read more »

Malacañang receives 2021 national budget for Duterte signing

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 18 07:43 PM

Congress has transmitted the P4.5-trillion national budget for 2021 to Malacañang for President Rodrigo Duterte’s signature, according to a lawmaker. Read more »

House approves bills extending validity of 2020 budget, Bayanihan 2

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 16 06:32 PM

In successive motions during plenary session, House lawmakers concurred with the Senate’s amendments to House Bill 6656 extending the validity of this year's budget until December 31, 2021. They likewise approved the Senate’s amendments to House Bill 8063 that would allow the utilization of Bayanihan 2 funds until June 30, 2021.   Read more »