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Pork per House member increased to P160 million
The P3.8-trillion proposed budget for 2019 appeared headed toward congressional approval on Thursday although still larded with hundreds of millions of pesos in pork allocations for members of the House of Representatives.
Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, a member of the Senate panel on the budget conference committee, said on Thursday members of the House were actually getting P160 million, and not just P60 million, worth of projects in the spending bill approved by the House.
Lacson said he found out about the pork increase just on Wednesday. It looked like the budget bill would not be pork-free but “pork-laden,” he said.
“If the [House conference] panel will not budge on the minimum standard P160 million earmarks for all their members, and the Senate agrees in the usual reciprocal consensus fashion, then I’m afraid we will have a pork-laden 2019 national budget,” Lacson said in a text message.
Malacañang is “eagerly” waiting the passage of the budget bill, presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo told reporters on Thursday.
Lacson said the National Expenditure Program (NEP), which was prepared by the executive branch, had P100 million worth of projects embedded in it for every member of the House.
The allocation consisted of P70 million in “hard” projects, which usually refer to infrastructure projects, and P30 million in “soft” projects, which usually cover financial assistance programs.
Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo then added P60 million to the allocation for her colleagues, Lacson said.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/108022...o-p160-million
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Paghuwat usa unsay sunod lakang sa imong kontra nga si du30, Ayaw pag una2x diha'g bulala ug propaganda diris istorya.net anang imong mga anti-gov nga news agency nga Inquirer.