THE 24-member Senate approved on Thursday the proposed P8.96-billion 2023 budget of the Office of the President (OP).Senate Deputy Majority Leader Mark Villar moved that the...
THE 24-member Senate approved on Thursday the proposed P8.96-billion 2023 budget of the Office of the President .Senate Deputy Majority Leader Mark Villar moved that the proposed 2023 budget of the Office of the President be deemed submitted for the upper chamber's approval. No senator objected to Villar's motion, prompting the approval of the OP budget.The Senate has been holding marathon plenary debates on the proposed national budget for next year, which totals P5.268 trillion.Sen.
268-trillion national budget for 2023.At the start of the second Senate plenary debates, Angara defended the proposed P8.96-billion OP budget, including its P4.5-billion intelligence and confidential funds.Angara stressed that this was the first time that the minority bloc questioned the allocation of intelligence and confidential funds.'I'd like to also put on record that these confidential and intelligence funds had been there since 2010,' Angara said.
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