OVP at 4 iba pang ahensiya, tuluyan nang tinanggalan ng confidential funds sa ilalim ng 2024 General Appropriations Bill
OVP at 4 iba pang ahensiya, tuluyan nang tinanggalan ng confidential funds sa ilalim ng 2024 General Appropriations Bill;
Mga ahensiyang nakatutok sa national security at West PH Sea, binigyan ng dagdag-pondo
Mga ahensiyang nakatutok sa national security at West PH Sea, binigyan ng dagdag-pondo
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00:00 After the small committee of the Camera, all the realignment and amendments in their version of the proposed 2024 national budget,
00:09 the confidential funds for the next year were completely removed.
00:14 Mela Lesmora in detail.
00:16 The office of the Vice President of the Departments of Education, Information and Communications, Agriculture and Foreign Affairs.
00:30 are getting zero confidential funds under the 2024 General Appropriations Bill.
00:35 It was official that the 1.23 billion pesos of confidential funds for the next year of the 5 branches of the government
00:45 will be transferred to the agencies that are in charge of the security of the country and are focused on defending the West Philippine Sea.
00:53 The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, National Security Council, Philippine Coast Guard and Department of Transportation
01:01 are also focused on airport development in Pag-asa Island.
01:05 We're seeing a potential of not only making it more friendly,
01:12 and maybe we can also attract Chinese tourists to go there.
01:17 So instead of fighting, we will make the island more productive.
01:21 We believe that the House of Representatives is on the right side of history.
01:26 We are responding to the call of the times.
01:29 And the volatile situation in the West Philippine Sea calls for the immediate and decisive action to protect our national sovereignty.
01:38 The confidential funds that were removed will be transferred to the maintenance and other operating expenses of other branches of the government.
01:47 Aside from the realignment of the confidential funds, some parts of the 2024 budget proposal were amended by the Camera.
01:54 In order to improve food production and control of inflation,
01:58 the Camera added the funds of some agencies for the Rice Subsidy Program,
02:03 expanding irrigation and other agricultural projects in the country.
02:08 And to further improve the government's assistance to our needy countrymen,
02:13 the Congress gave notice of the other important programs of the government.
02:19 On the part of the majority, of course, we also took the proposed amendments,
02:25 but we have to discuss it as a small committee, we have to prioritize.
02:29 Even though we have little money, but at least we are able to meet the needs of our countrymen.
02:36 That's why the minority agreed to our amendments to the budget.
02:44 After the details of the 2024 budget proposal were laid out,
02:50 the House leaders also made it clear that the information was spread that the Camera has 1.6 billion pesos of confidential funds.
02:59 The Congress does not have confidential funds. The 1.6 billion pesos that they are saying are extraordinary expenses.
03:07 The extraordinary is fully auditable, which is different from confidential.
03:12 And the Congress does not have confidential.
03:14 The extraordinary is like the expenses during calamities.
03:22 So that's an example of extraordinary expense.
03:25 In short, that's fake news.
03:27 Thank you.
03:30 Thank you.
03:31 Within two weeks, the Camera is expected to submit their final version of the proposed fund for the next year.
03:40 Melalez Moras for the nation.
03:42 sub by yacht.