Tag: Budget
Recto vows to scrutinize 2026 budget, eradicate ghost projects
Finance Secretary Ralph Recto has vowed "strict scrutiny" of the proposed 2026 national budget to ensure no taxpayer's peso is wasted, supporting President Ferdinand...
Cut, realign flood control budget to social services, civil society groups ask House
CIVIL society organizations (CSOs) accredited by the House Committee on Appropriations to be observers in the budget hearings for the proposed P6.793 trillion national...
Chiz wants LGU leaders to join budget hearings
SENATE President Francis “Chiz” Escudero yesterday urged the Committee on Finance to invite local government executives to the budget deliberations so they can actively...
US budget deficit forecast $1 trillion higher over next decade, watchdog says
WASHINGTON — US federal budget deficits will be nearly $1 trillion higher over the next decade than projected in January by the Congressional Budget...
Senate panel set to subpoena 8 flood contractors
THE Senate Blue Ribbon Committee yesterday approved the issuance of subpoenas to eight of 15 contractors who snubbed the panel’s hearing on alleged anomalous...
