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Isko Moreno against defunding NTF-ELCAC

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 16 06:08 PM

Aksyon Demokratiko standard bearer Isko Moreno Domagoso on Wednesday said he is not in favor of defunding the government's controversial anti-insurgency panel should he win the 2022 presidency. Read more »

Solon: Use Duterte intel fund for teachers election pay

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 08 10:15 AM

Additional funds for the salary of teachers during the 2022 elections can be sourced from government's anti-insurgency budget or the President's intelligence funds, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Read more »

Budget na inilaan sa NTF-ELCAC sa 2022 bubusisiin

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 25 08:26 PM

Pinagpapaliwanag ng Kamara ang administrasyon kung bakit ganoon kalaki ang pondo para sa NTF-ELCAC. Read more »

Gov't must justify NTF-ELCAC, confidential funds sought for 2022: House panel chair

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 25 03:39 PM

The House of Representatives' budget panel chair wants the government to justify the P28.1 billion it allocated for NTF-ELCAC in 2022. Read more »

Former Ombudsman urges successor: Probe spending of COVID-19 funds

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 05 05:56 PM

Former Ombudsman and 1Sambayan convenor Conchita Carpio Morales on Wednesday chided the Duterte administration over its COVID-19-related expenditures, and urged her successor to look into the matter.  Read more »

Congress has no intelligence funds, COA says

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 13 11:07 PM

MANILA - The Commission on Audit clarified Wednesday that the House of Representatives and the Senate did not have confidential and intelligence funds for 2019. 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 »

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 »

DBM: Housing, intel funds can't be compared 'apple to apple'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 22 08:02 PM

Funds for housing backlogs and those for intelligence operations cannot be compared "apple to apple," the Department of Budget and Management said Thursday, following criticism from some senators.   Read more »

Duterte's P4.5-B intelligence funds 'too much,' says Lacson

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 11 11:45 AM

Sen. Panfilo Lacson said Friday he would question President Rodrigo Duterte's billion-peso confidential intelligence funds that were "a bit too much."   Read more »

Rio, Honasan, 'set record straight' in alleged 'anomaly', DICT row

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 07 06:09 PM

Cabinet Secretary Gringo Honasan and Undersecretary Eliseo Rio said Friday they have agreed “to settle their differences" while assuring the public that the alleged “anomalous” confidential fund disbursed to the agency was legitimate.  Read more »

Senators push to revive oversight committee on intel funds

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 05 11:36 PM

Two senators filed a resolution seeking to reactivate the Senate Oversight Committee on intelligence and confidential funds.  Read more »

Sotto, Lacson push to 'reactivate' Senate oversight on intel funds

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 05 12:40 PM

A resolution seeking to “reactivate” the legislative’s power to review intelligence and confidential funds has been filed at the Senate to ensure that billions of taxes are spent “efficiently.” Read more »

Cloak and dagger: Duterte's record-high 2020 intel budget

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 30 11:57 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte is asking Congress to authorize P8.28 billion of the government’s proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 on surveillance alone—the highest of his term. Read more »

Palace: P1.5 billion increase in Duterte's budget 'necessary'

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 03:44 PM

The Duterte administration is proposing an P8.2 billion budget for the Office of the President next year, P1.5 billion higher than the P6.7 billion this year.  Read more »

PH turning into police state? House urged to probe rise in Duterte intel funds

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 23 12:51 PM

The Philippines is turning into a police state, leftist lawmakers warned Friday as President Rodrigo Duterte's office sought to double its intelligence funds. Read more »

Supreme Court clears ex-PCSO chief of malversation

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 30 03:59 PM

The Supreme Court has cleared of malversation a former head of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) who had originally been accused of plunder with former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo over the release of the P365-million PCSO confidential and intelligence funds. Read more »

De Lima seeks probe on use of gov't intelligence funds

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 25 07:52 PM

MANILA - Sen. Leila de Lima has filed a bill seeking to investigate if the government's intelligence funds are properly used. Read more »