Duterte Walks Out Of Budget Hearing After Refusing To Disclose Confidential Funds

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Duterte Walks Out Of Budget Hearing After Refusing To Disclose Confidential Funds
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Vice President Sara Duterte left a House of Representatives budget hearing after refusing to disclose how the Office of the Vice President (OVP) spent confidential funds in 2022. She argued that the hearing focused on the OVP's proposed budget for 2025, which did not include any confidential fund requests.

THE public has witnessed how budget hearing s, especially for the Office of the Vice President , can go south — for Vice President Sara Duterte herself, that is.Recently, Duterte appeared before a House of Representatives panel to defend the OVP's proposed P2-billion budget for 2025.

After all, the topic of passionate exchanges between the two district representatives is not about a special resolution concerning voters from the Enlisted Men's Barrios, formerly of Makati, now of Taguig.Mudslinging heralds the midterm electionsMany would wonder: Why would Duterte avoid swearing under oath 'to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...

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