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Press Release  20 August 2023 The good news is that the Marcos administration is seeking an almost half-a-billion peso increase – or to P2.02 billion – for cancer control and cancer patient assistance funds in the proposed P5.76 trillion national budget for 2024, House

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.

President Duterte’s promises of new equipment for “his beloved uniformed services” are being betrayed by the Philippine International Trading Corporation’s (PITC) “failure to deliver them on time or deliver them at all.” The intent of another branch of government – Congress –

At least 242 towns have no fire stations or fire trucks, but a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-attached corporation—whose competence is to import goods— has not been able complete even one of the 98 fire stations it was contracted to build for P892 million. The undelivered

Any doctor will tell you never to take expired medicine, but here the DOH is leading the way in letting taxpayer-bought medicines expire in bulk. In a nation where many resort to halving tablets for lack of money to buy the full prescribed dosage, the recently-released 2019 COA

Health share of the 2021 P1 trillion infrastructure pie is a measly “1 percent”, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said, “a kind of budget prioritization that turns a blind eye to the health facility shortages the pandemic has laid bare.” “This is pandemic denialism,”

During the Senate plenary deliberations on the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020, Recto pointed out that the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) had already earmarked P31.1 billion for the next tranche of the Salary Standardization Law. Replying to Recto’s

Ayon sa datos, two percent lamang ng national budget ang inilalaan para sa Department of National Defense (DND), kaya naman isinusulong ni Senator Ralph Recto na dagdagan ang budget ng ahensiya upang makapag-invest hindi lamang sa shipbuilding equipment na siyang magiging

Mandato ng MMDA ang kumilos, magplano, at magmonitor nang mga regulatory practices sa Metro Manila. Ngunit dahil napag-alaman na mas pinagtutuunan nang pansin ang mga minor projects, isinusulong ni Senator Ralph Recto ang pagtutok sa pagpapaganda at pagsasaayos ng siyudad bilang