The House of Representatives committee on appropriations swiftly terminated deliberations on the Office of the Vice President’s P2.385 billion proposed
Seconds after Vice President Sara Duterte finished her audio-visual presentation, Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte Rep. Sandro Marcos moved to end the deliberation.
But the three members of the Makabayan bloc, led by House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro, objected to the motion, appealing to the committee to allow them to ask questions.Castro’s group wanted Duterte to explain the P125-million confidential fund that the OVP received and spent in 2022, even if such an item was not provided under that year’s national budget law.
“So we wonder why this decision was made, and we are truly enraged about this incident because we were fully prepared and ready to ask our questions to enlighten the public about how this P125 million confidential fund was spent, which is not even included in the 2022 General Appropriations Act budget. Akala ko ba handang magpaliwanag si VP Duterte,” she said.
“The OVP had no Congressional authorization to incur confidential expenses in 2022. A full accounting should be made down to the last centavo,” said Castro.
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