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Breaking down next year’s P4.506 trillion national budget on a daily basis reveals “the gravity and the gaps” which the pandemic has wrought upon government spending, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “We are budgeting P4.506 trillion next year, of which only P2.717

Some of the important “mission orders” of newly-appointed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Debold Sinas are spelled out in the “performance guarantees” that the PNP has attached to its P190.8 billion budget request for 2021, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.

Our man in Washington DC is well-positioned to help steer our country’s interest through whatever changes a Democratic White House would bring to PH-US relations. Long before he allowed himself to be conscripted for foreign service, Ambassador Babes Romualdez already had enough

I wish General Galvez good luck on his additional assignment as vaccine czar. No mission is tougher and no stake is higher than providing vaccines for all. But that burden is too heavy for one man to bear. This is not a job for one Superman. He has to assemble his Justice League.

Government’s tree-planting drive next year should join other grassroots jobs initiatives, as mobilizing “plantreetos and plantreetas” could shield its proposed P5.1 billion budget from wastage and delays. This is just one of the proposals of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today called for “an accelerated program” to equip officers and patrol cars of the PNP with dashboard and body cameras. “If food delivery guys wear them or have them on their bikes, why can’t our police officers and cars have them too?”

President Duterte should sign the Medical Scholarship Bill into law next month so whatever required funds to implement it can still be included in next year’s national budget, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto is also proposing that the scholarship be named

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has urged Malacañang to appoint a “vaccine czar” who can solve the “importation to injection” challenges of getting the COVID-19 vaccine to 110 million Filipinos in a world where rich countries bankrolling their development will get them

A theoretical extra day of voting in the May 2022 presidential elections will cost at least P2 billion, twice the Commission on Elections’ initial estimate, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “If the virus will still linger by then, that casting the ballot becomes

The temporary absence of Red Cross testing distorts the national COVID picture. One in four RT-PCR tests is done by the PNRC. The absence of PNRC deflates the infection rate, making any dip in the reported number of verified cases an artificial decline. If PNRC stops testing