Vice President Sara Duterte's office will no longer pursue its request for P500-million confidential fund for next year, its budget sponsor said.
MANILA — Vice President Sara Duterte on Thursday said her office and the Department of Education would no longer pursue their combined request for P650-million confidential funds for next year.
The OVP's budget sponsor, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sonny Angara, made the same announcement during a budget deliberation earlier in the day. The proposed P1.874-billion budget of the OVP for 2024 was then "deemed submitted" to the Senate plenary. The House of Representatives earlier stripped the OVP and DepEd of their confidential fund requests, along with other civilian agencies, and realigned them to security offices. Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III commended the Vice President "for now categorically stating to this house that it is not a deferral to our wisdom; she does not want it anymore."
Meanwhile, Sen. Ronald dela Rosa appealed to DepEd to not let its guard down on preventing students from joining the communist movement despite having no confidential funds.
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