Hello, everyone! My old account is gone. Apparently, X deletes an account when you don't login for 30 days.
I went on a hiatus and didn't login for like 100 days😅
Anyhow, I will be posting about the budget under this account - same handle as my old one - from here on out😀
Worked for CNN Philippines for over a decade. We tried our best to deliver news that’s fair, accurate, and balanced.
I handled most of our social media accounts.
And just like that, it’s all gone.
We fought the good fight.
I’m proud of what we accomplished.
The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) is inviting the Filipino people to attend the “Bagong Pilipinas” kick-off rally at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila City on January 28, Sunday.
Read:
You know what else we should be monitoring?
- the 24.3 BILLION UNLIQUIDATED FUNDS of the DA transferred to different entities.
- the 208M unliquidated cash advances for local and foreign travel
- 99M unliquidated funds to PS DBM
All in 2022. Who was the DA Sec last year?
Her conclusion is based on the assumption that the PH economy is completely insulated from politics. It is NOT.
Patronage politics? Corruption?
They cannot be solved by simply having a Philippine Development Plan that supposedly gets better and better with every admin.
Doesn’t this make you ask where all our taxes went?
When you continue to pay taxes, and see such results against a backdrop of great social inequality, then you should know that our leaders have failed to use the national budget as a force for good and socio-econ development.
As an agricultural nation, it's ironic that the Philippines remains the world's top rice importer. Coupled with the worst global traffic and our students ranking bottom in PISA’s Reading, Science, and Math, this situation demands immediate and serious government intervention.
Bakit hindi sure si ma'am?
Sa tagal kong nagtrabaho sa DBM, I know for a fact na na kapag tinanong ang mga director/analysts kung ano ang status ng funds, FACTUAL answers mula sa ahensya ang ibibigay nila.
And yes, with matching financial report na may pirma ng ahensya
DEPED REALIGNED CONFIDENTIAL FUNDS TO 'PRIORITY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS' — DBM
Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman says the Department of Education's (DepEd) request for confidential funds has been realigned to its voucher program and other priority projects.
#BantayBudget2024
Well, well, well
Pulong Duterte’s district had the highest flood control allocation under DPWH local infra in the 2020 GAA.
I went to Davao City sometime in late 2022. Ayun. Waterworld pala doon pag malakas ang ulan, like España levels ang baha
And just to note here: flood control is a Napoles-level scandal waiting to explode. Hanapin niyo lang yung regional news reports of flood walls that break down almost yearly.
“We are fortunate”? This sounds very trapo to me.
Should we feel indebted to a President who is “prioritizing the well-being of the Filipino people” as if it is his own dispensation?
No. Taxpayers money should work for taxpayers. It is the job of the President to do that.
#BeyondBudget
: In her latest
@manilabulletin
article, DBM Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman lauded President
@bongbongmarcos
for prioritizing the well-being of the Filipino people through an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development.
Ayan na nga. Usec Cathy of DPWH and Asec Rhea of DBM confirmed the 51B figure.
Besides reallocations of budgets from other districts, it is very likely, that other infra were funded from other sources.
COA should do a special audit and media should ask status of the projects.
Confirmed. Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte's district received P51 billion pesos during the last 3 years of his father's presidency. His own father's office requested for such amounts in the national budget.
This was confirmed by Public Works Undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral…
'PA-VICTIM MASYADO'
Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raoul Manuel calls out Sen. Bato Dela Rosa for "playing the victim" in connection with the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation into the Duterte administration's bloody war on drugs.
Does Davao del Norte 1st District Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez blame the House of Representatives for the massive flooding in Mindanao? On
#DatelinePhilippines
, the lawmaker answers: "logically, yes."
Hay naku. Kasinungalingan talaga na nabayaran na ang lahat ng utang ng Pilipinas. Yung 14.62T by end of 2023 tataas pa iyon ngayong taon kasi may bagong pasa tayong national budget.
Buti na lang mabilis magTik-Tok si Prof
@cielo_magno
😃
@magiepi
@iampinglacson
I've had enough of the lie that the PNoy administration did not spend on infra.
It was the PNoy administration, NOT THE DUTERTE ADMIN that proggressively ramped up infra spending.
Project completion takes several years and who reaped the benefits? THE DUTERTE ADMIN
Kasi nga, he got used to getting more than 2B per year.
Paolo Duterte is no longer a “sacred cow”, so now the questions is: who replaced him?
Who is bow getting billions in infra allocations? Who pushed for a 200B+ increase for “pork” during the Bicam?
What does she mean “technically-wise”?
Please be wary of content like this. Listen to real subject matter experts who built years and years of expertise in their fields.
INSIDE APOLLO QUIBOLOY’S LAVISH WORLD
A Rappler investigation uncovers three properties estimated to be worth P338 million traced to the doomsday preacher and his group. Two of these are in Canada, while one is located in an affluent part of California, near the homes of…
Sino ba talaga si Mayor Alice Guo? Saan sya nanggaling? Saan galing ang yaman n’ya?
Bakit Bamban ang napiling tayuan ng massive POGO hub na kinakitaan ng mga iligal na operasyon?
Catch our
#FactsFirst
#Tonight
interview with
@risahontiveros
at 8:30 PM:
Kudos
@barnabychuck
for contrasting Marcos Jr's privilege with the plight of ordinary Filipinos, and most of all, for reminding the world of the Marcoses' legacy of corruption.
#NeverForget
On Al Jazeera.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s attendance at Coldplay’s concert lands him in trouble after fans discover he arrived on the presidential chopper while they endured hours of Manila’s notorious traffic to get to the venue. Critics say it’s an example of…
Oh yes! That's not a secret! Many people know I worked in the PNoy administration with Butch Abad.
O picture nung huling budget preparation namin sa DBM😂
Malls already open and close past the rush hour. What is it going to solve?
How about investing to increase the supply of road-based public transport and investing in humane pedestrian friendly infra that would encourage active transport while rail projects are underway?
So I am being maliciously called “magnanakaw”, “kurakot” and “linis-linisin” by a small group of trolls after commenting on the DBM Secretary’s uncertainty in her own statement about where the Deped’s Confidential Funds where reallocated?
Baduy nyo. Luma na yan😂 SUE ME
PRO TIP: Check Volume C of the 2020-2022 General Appropriations Acts and you will see what kinds of infra projects these are.
The list of projects are normally hidden from the public until the GAAs are published.
When are these projects inserted? DURING THE BICAM OF COURSE
Accdg to DBM/DPWH, Pulong Duterte was awarded a whopping P51 billion from 2020-22 for his district. This is scandalous on so many levels! Anong infra project ang worth P51 billion sa isang distrito? This warrants a COA Special Audit.
#DuterteScam
Let's go back to this. Yesterday before my convo with
@IanEsguerra
, I pored through the 2020-2022 GAAs to see how much funds were allocated for infra projects in Pulong Duterte's district.
It shouldn't have been shocking to see the figures, but I was still well...shocked.
Well, well, well
Pulong Duterte’s district had the highest flood control allocation under DPWH local infra in the 2020 GAA.
I went to Davao City sometime in late 2022. Ayun. Waterworld pala doon pag malakas ang ulan, like España levels ang baha
Some people really want to push charter change — by hook or by crook. This ad was shown at every commercial break of TV Patrol. It’s just funny that they don’t have the guts to show who they are. “This is a paid advertisement” — Paid by?
Well,
@RyanLingo_
, the OVP didn’t have Confidential Funds until Sara Duterte became the Vice-President.
That was the norm. So the absence of CF in the OVP’s budget is nothing extraordinary. Nothing heroic, nothing to clap about.
IT IS JUST A RETURN TO NORMAL.
I will be going live on
#TheFinalWord
with Rico Hizon at 9pm tonight to talk about the Unprogrammed Appropriations in the 2024 National Budget.
Please stay tuned if you’re interested!
In fact, we flagged Pulong Duterte’s allocations as early as 2020 when we analyzed the 2020 GAA.
We knew it would set a pattern, didn’t we
@jcpunongbayan
@rupertnotholmes
?
And yes, this began at the height of the pandemic
And to top off the polvoron vs fentanyl showdown, there’s also our stellar Corruption Perception Index that is only ahead of Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar in SE Asia, and North Korea in the greater ASEAN region.
Ganyan ang attractive investment destination. So help us god🙈
Ay dapat pala completely separate ang analysis ng economics and politics?😂
Isang malaking kalokohan lang pala ang POLITICAL ECONOMY😂
Bakit kaya itinuturo pa ito sa mga universities?😂
WATCH: Felito Pon, Sagbayan’s Executive Secretary explains why they still issued a business permit to Captain’s Peak Resort despite the DENR saying a temporary closure order was issued back in September 2023: Wala kaming kopya.
Today, the LGU revoked the business permit.
I spoke to
@RicoHizon
last night about the 450B additional Unapprogramed Appropriations in the 2024 National Budget
Sen. Koko Pimentel said he will question this in the Supreme Court as the budget breached the 5.7Trillion ceiling because of this.
Bagaman on track ang pagbaba ng debt-to-GDP ratio, tandaan natin na umuutang ang pamahalaan para tustusan ang national budget.
1.5T nakaprogramang utang para sa 2023. 1.1T na ang nautang as of end Nov 2023, bahagi ito ng 14.5T na utang ng Pilipinas over the years.
Haha. Funny but in reality, this means taxpayers are paying for the salary of a senator who is essentially just a palamuti where the issue of cha-cha is concerned.
Still alive, but with a much shorter haircut that will definitely not look like this on a normal day. Initially went for a shoulder-length blunt cut a week ago, but man the heat this summer is something else
WATCH: Estrada chides ex-PDEA agent Morales over ‘convicted’ remark
“Ako ay may kaso pa lang. Hindi po kagaya ng ating butihing senador na convicted,” says Morales of Estrada. | via
@bnzmagsambol
@RyanLingo_
Spin ang post mo. Pinapalabas mo na we were doing so well during the pandemic under the Duterte admin. Pero hindi iyan ang sinasabi ng datos ng PSA.
In other words, isang malaking kasinungalingan na hindi maraming nagutom noong pandemya.
Sinungaling ka
@RyanLingo_
This kid must be a genius, albeit an ARROGANT, CONDESCENDING one.
This isn't the most effective way to appeal for solidarity with the Palestinians.
Might as well listen to Huda Kattan who actually helps shed light on the plight of Palestinians sans any virtue-signaling.
you stupid liberals must be in a constant state of dilemma always thinking of workers’ welfare when deciding to consume stuff from mega-corporations. or maybe mga low-key zionists lang kayo kase you can excuse boycotting pro-bbm brands but not in solidarity for palestinians
Magmake-up rin siguro ako in every video while talking about the budget if I ever join Tiktok.
Tapos lalagay ko sa bio something like: “passionate about make-up”. Haha!
Looks like that’s the kind of stuff that catches attention on Tiktok.
Where do unused funds go?
They revert to the Treasury when the validity of appropriations - or the authority to spend - expires.
Extraordinary and Miscellaneous Expenses are Personnel Services allocations which typically have a one year validity.
Glad I got to join THE
@ConstantKC
and
@KakanTuring
convo on the latest debt figure and the UA.
We need to talk about debt not only in terms of aggregate levels and debt-to-GDP ratio, but the “so-what” of it all
Ano ba ang impact ng inutang sa taxpaying public?
The gov't cannot escape greater responsibility for providing more efficient mass transport systems.
If legislators can fund hundreds of billions worth of pork, they should prioritize funding a more pro-poor PUVMP.
Cut the fat, not just the CIF
@walcantara
@iampinglacson
He did, actually. Go check infra budget data and infra spending as percent of GDP.
Many of the big-ticket infra/transport projects that are now in operation like NLEX-SLEX Connector Road, NAIAX, CALAX, TPLEX, Mactan Airport were all funded and contracted out by the PNoy admin.
DepEd needs an education professional not a politician. Isn't that the most logical first step for this administration if it's serious about reversing the PISA results?
Walang kwenta ang policy at budget proposals kung hindi aayusin ang institusyon. Governance ang tawag doon
All I can say is this storyline of Guo is a very bad, unconvincing adaptation of the film Salt LOL
EXCLUSIVE FULL INTERVIEW: Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, sinagot ang mga isyung... via
@YouTube
Magsusulat na rin ba tayo ng libro about fiscal and budget issues during the Duterte admin? I just realized, we had an analysis of how bad it was every year during the entire admin👀
God made heaven and earth. Everything else is made in China like this milky white faux croc skin laptop cover.
Done now with the morning rituals, so balik tayo sa issue ng baha sa Davao City at sa flood control allocations ni Congressman Pulong Duterte. Will tweet some figures.
How will this problem be solved when every year Congress defunds mass transport projects of DOTr and channels funds to car-centric projects of DPWH instead?
Go and compare the allocations of the two depts in the NEP and the GAA the last few years.
A reminder for us to always be critical of statements that profess to solve longstanding wicked problems within a year (or less). Makers of these statements are either unaware of how complex the problem is or they’re just completing bluffing.
Church people must stay out of politics says those same people who demand the Church to do something for the poor.
Concern for the poor is political. Poverty is not simply a spiritual problem but by large a product of institutionalized oppression by bad politics and social sins.
Totally agree!
Legislators owe the public an explanation for why certain allocations that weren’t discussed on the floor suddenly make their way into the GAA.
#BudgetNatinIto
#BuwisNatinIto
Excellent thread. Just want to point out that this is exactly why the Bicam Conf. Report is something the media should always look at when reporting on the GAA & other legislation.
Insertions that weren’t agreed on are made during the BICAM. 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
Posible naman talaga gumastos ang isang gov’t agency ng millions o billions isang bagsakan kung CAPITAL OUTLAYS tulad ng infra or equipment ang involved sa procurement.
Ibang usapan ang Confi Funds.
Hindi Capital Outlays iyon. MOOE iyon so hindi apples to apples ang comparison.
While I was off-the-grid, I spent a lot of time in meditation.
My Headspace app says I did 107 meditation sessions with a total time of 2,147 minutes since mid-August💪🏼
The most memorable one was in Kyoto - at the Zen garden built by Soseki in the 14th century.
WRONG. Ayuda is NOT lodged in the budget of the House Speaker. It is part of the budgets of various departments.
That is not to say the Speaker and the rest of Congress for that matter cannot use them as an instrument for patronage politics.
Ang opisina ng House Speaker next year may kulang-kulang na P500-B allocation for ayuda?😱
Tapos sa OP, may isiningit ang House na BILLIONS of UNPROGRAMMED APPROPRIATIONS.
Hahahaha. Kawawang Pilipinas talaga.
Sen. Pimentel is correct. I crunched the numbers.
The total budget proposed by the Executive branch is 5.7 trillion. The total budget ratified by Congress is 6.2 trillion - 450 billion higher than the proposed version because of the bloated Unprogrammed Appropriations.
I read this article last night right after listening to a chapter of
@patevangelista
's Some People Need Killing.
Both accounts are chilling and he is evil personified.
Lascañas reveals plots to kill De Lima and Fr. Lamata, the real reason Parojinog and members of his family were murdered and Duterte’s instruction to rape women drug suspects.
Must read thread of Cong.
@lagman_edcel
on the petition he filed about the Php450B Unprogrammed Appropriations in the 2024 GAA.
He argues that the constitutional prohibition on increasing appropriations by Congress does not distinguish between "programmed" and "unprogrammed"
1. The bicameral conference committee on the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) furtively inserted an excess of P449,450,510,000 in unprogrammed appropriations.
Taguig had months to prepare to ensure uninterrupted delivery of healthcare services to the residents of the 10 EMBO barangays.
Whether Makati is at fault or not, Taguig should have found an alternative for its new constituents.
@znsuzara
@DocGorz
Sowing malice? Pa victim ka naman. Sino ba ang nagpipilit na may corruption ang mga Duterte?
Tandaan mo ito
@znsuzara
never will this country forget iyong pagnanakaw ni Butch Abad. Ikaw na assistant ni Butch will always answer for your role
Not surprised that the VP skipped the GAA signing ceremony. She emerged as one of the political losers in the legislation and enactment of the 2024 national budget.
Apart from her Confidential Funds being slashed, DepEd only got a 3B increase.
President Marcos' signing of 2023 budget last year vs signing of 2024 budget today.
VP Sara Duterte – who had to abandon her 2024 confidential fund request after Congress said they won't grant it – skips the ceremonial signing of the GAA.
@rapplerdotcom
Watch
@ConstantKC
's interview with Rep. Abante. It's soooooo satisfying to listen to her ask the tough questions. It exposes politicos' flimsy excuses for their lack of political accountability.
Dateline Philippines | ANC (23 May 2024) via
@YouTube
The level of wastage in that department per the latest COA audit report is also quite unimaginable.
855,493 bags of seeds + 2,088 mechanization equipment procured under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Funds were NOT DISTRIBUTED to farmers.
@walcantara
@iampinglacson
Under PNoy’s leadership, the Philippines public infra spending as % of GDP went up from an average of 1% to 5% at the close of his term.
Too bad he wasn’t epal and so many people do not know it.
We as taxpayers especially civil society and media need to read the COA audit reports year in and year out because those are the documents that tells exactly how funds were spent, how our leaders and the rest of the bureaucracy performed.
These complete the story of the GAA.
Enough said.
"But I hope enough people remember or realize that the 1987 Constitution was precisely a reaction to the economic crisis and deterioration that happened during the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986)" -
@jcpunongbayan
via
@rapplerdotcom
Marami naman talagang nagutom at naghirap noong pandemic. Tumaas ang poverty incidence noong 2021 kesa noong 2018.
@RyanLingo_
spin ang post mo. Pinapalabas mo na we were doing so well during the pandemic under the Duterte admin.
Pero hindi iyan ang sinasabi ng datos ng PSA.
NTF-ELCAC has been unfairly equated with "red-tagging" daw sabi ng isang gov't official.
Talaga namang red-tagging ang ginagawa ng NTF-ELCAC during the Duterte admin.
Duplication lang rin naman ng PAMANA ang programang iniimplement nila. Duh.
And then we heard about the OVP’s Confidential Funds in 2022.
So there’s money, but there’s no fiscal discipline, yes?
Worse, there is no sense of ACCOUNTABILITY on the use of public funds in the institutions led by the top two officials of this country.
Ilagay mo ang tamang data at isulat ang iyong analysis. It’s that simple.
No need to keep moving the goalpost from Duterte, to Pinoy, to PGMA admin versions of CCT one tweet at a time.
If your whole point is to “challenge” my tweet by defining CCT. That won’t cut it.
@znsuzara
@RyanLingo_
wrong data kasi inattach mo, hindi nag match dun sa caption mo. Yun lang yun. I was not stating anything about the duterte admin. Chinallenge ko lang yung tweet mo.
Here are some of my initial observations on the enacted 2024 National Budget vs. the Exec-proposed version.
While it is true that there were additional budgets for DA, DepEd, DOH, DSWD, DND, etc, the avalanches in funding show what the real priorities of Congress are.
𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲?🤔
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Isn't it the President's job to supervise the economic managers? That's part of governance.
So why delegate the power and authority to a business tycoon?
Another tycoon as economic adviser? And not just that, one that will "supervise" the government's economic agencies including NEDA, DOF, DBM, and DTI??? via
@rapplerdotcom
The full version of the 2024 General Appropriations Act is now available on the DBM website.
Let’s all scrutinize it. Compare it with the proposed version of the NEP, and see for yourselves how Congress decided.
#BudgetNatinIto
Marcos Administration’s Php 88 Billion Budget Surplus, the highest recorded since 1986?
Catching up with the news this morning, I came across an underappreciated good news of the Marcos Administration. Finally after eight consecutive months of budget deficit, revenue collections…
Good morning,
@Michael550265
!
Namaste! Hola! Bonjour! Hallo! Konichiwaaaaa!
Did you sleep well last night? You need good sleep for better cognition and memory LOL
Interesting statement from Budget Babe. Kung alam dapat ang status ng funds. Saan napunta ang over 200B DAP funds na ninakaw ni Butch Abad at Abnoy Aquino? Sa tagal mo na naging assistant ni Butch Abad. You just confirmed na alam mo kung saan napunta ang pera
There can be many brilliant policy recommendations and budget proposals, but if there is no emphasis on strengthening absorptive capacity of DepEd, things will continue to fall through the cracks.
Here with DBM Asec Rolly Toledo, former DBM Usec Luz Cantor and Rob Gumasing at
@iLEAD_PH
’s Sin Tax forum - talking budget issues and imagining participatory governance mechanisms just like old times!😆
What is this I’ve been reading that compensatory time off will be granted to gov’t employees who will attend the Bagong Pilipinas rally?
Does this cover only national gov’t agencies or also GOCCs?
Cathartic ng candor at sarcasm ni
@IanEsguerra
pag inaaddress ang mga trolls sa
#FactsFirst
🤣
Duterte at China, may ‘secret deal’ sa Ayungin Shoal? via
@YouTube
Kung may pacontest for most tone deaf videos this summer, ito ang inonominate ko na top 1.
Strong contender rin for me iyong stable economy video.
Pero dahil ito ay almost 6 minutes at professionally done, habang iyong isa ay 1 minute lang and amateur, top 2 lang the latter
BBM VLOG 259: Chibog
Team adobo o Team sinigang?
Tiyak na marami pang lutong Pinoy na puwede nating ipagmalaki sa buong mundo!
I-comment ang paborito ninyong chibog na makikita lamang sa inyong lugar at sama-sama nating tangkilikin ang lutong Pilipino!
#LoveThePhilippines
Of course, the borrowings are fatter because pork in the PH budget also keeps getting fatter every year. No surprise there
Marcos gov’t capped ’23 with fatter borrowings