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BBM keeps Cabinet members who made him unpopular
BBM kept Secretaries Ralph Recto of Finance and Amenah Pangandaman of Budget. Of five Cabinet men in PhilHealth’s board, the two are most to blame for the illicit transfer of P90 billion of our ...
Health-care professionals, labor groups and communities are asking lawmakers to defer amendments to Republic Act No. 11223, or the Universal Health Care Act. They warned that ...
Economic advocacy group Action for Economic Reforms (AER) backs the Department of Finance’s (DOF) stance to retain Philippine ...
A group of medical professionals have called on the government to defer the passage of proposed amendments to the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act and not to lower premium PhilHealth contributions.
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Stopping thievery
With the thievery designed into the 2025 national budget being partly blamed for the Alyansa election debacle, President Marcos reportedly intends to closely monitor the bicameral conference on the ...
The concept of using a zero based budgeting system has divided The Blue Mountains council. At a special meeting of council on May 14, Coun. June Porter brought forward a resolution that directed ...
Senate budget writers voted to keep the Council on the Arts intact, but left it with only a dollar. They then told the council to seek private donations to continue its mission. The House-approved ...
ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul signed off on a record-smashing $254 billion state budget deal Friday — though a lack of transparency in the budget process and an uncertain economic picture could ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — School districts across the state may find some relief in the latest state budget as they work to comply with the controversial zero-emission school bus mandate.
China’s fiscal stimulus pushed its four-month budget deficit to a record high, as the government ramped up support for the economy during an escalation in its trade conflict with the US. The ...