‘WE CANNOT AFFORD IT’
WATCH: Senate President Win Gatchalian says the Senate cannot afford to grant Vice President Sara Duterte’s request for the chamber to shoulder the food, beverage, and catering costs of her defense team throughout the impeachment trial.
Gatchalian said that while the Senate still has available funds, it will need to rent the Philippine International Convention Center for deliberations on the proposed 2027 national budget because its committee rooms are occupied for the trial.
“In short, wala kaming pondo para magbigay ng pagkain,” Gatchalian said. | @eimorpsantos
I asked for a statement, and I still want one. But I won't equate silence with guilt or inaction just yet. Perhaps, that's me hoping for character development, but if time and the facts prove me wrong, I'll accept it with humility. Until then, I'll wait.
ang budget every fiscal year ay inaapprove tuwing December the year before through the General Appropriations Act (GAA). ideally, naka-itemize publicly lahat per agency (pwera sa ibang unique funds like confidential and intelligence funds, unprogrammed funds na wala pang budget, etc.).
as former DepEd Secretary at VP, bakit hindi ito alam ni VP Sara? 90+ days ang trial. Magkano aabutin ng catering for the whole defense team, aides, etc. for 90+ days? saan huhugutin ang pondo? even sa ganitong demand ni VP Sara, alam mo nang napaka-incompetent at walang pagpapahalaga sa pera ng bayan.
It's easy to mock the person fighting for your rights—until those rights are the ones protecting the people you love.
Salamat sa lahat ng to Ma @risahontiveros , kahit minsan di naappreciate ng iba.. ❤️
Committee Hearing of the Committee on Basic Education and Culture
pinag-uusapan pa rin natin ang walang-katapusang classroom backlog.
take note that when PNoy took over in 2010, ang minana niyang classroom backlog ay 66,800 classrooms. he wiped out the backlog by 2014 at nag-iwan pa ng sobra. yet with Duterte as president from 2016-2022, and BBM as president and Sara as education secretary until her resignation, 165,000 classrooms ang existing backlog.
during budget season last year, ang laki ng pondong nilaan para tugunan ang backlog. kailangan natin bantayan ngayon kung ilang classrooms ba talaga ang naipatayo. siguraduhin din nating mananatili itong priority sa nalalapit na budget season ulit this year.
TW: Death Threats
Sobrang sasahol ng ganitong mga tao na proudly maglalabas ng death threats para sa isang taong baka hindi nga nila kilala in real life.
Sana po ipahanap at kasuhan ang bawat isa sa kanila. And we hope po na nag-heighten po kayo ng security measures, Sen. @risahontiveros. Kailangan po kayo ng bayan. 💜
Inaattribute ko pa rin sa Dutertismo ang ganitong mga kabalbalan at normalization ng dahas. Kaya sana talaga maconvict na ‘yang si VP Sara, na grave threats din ang isa sa mga ginawa. Masyado nang nasira at nabulok ang kaluluwa ng bayan sa ginawa ng pamilya nila.
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