MANILA - Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday flagged the P16-billion budget next year for an anti-insurgency task force, questioning why it received more funds than the labor and the t
ourism departments, whose sectors were crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Are we saying communist insurgency is a bigger, more serious problem next year than unemployment... than the shutting down of the tourism industry?" Drilon asked economic managers during the hearing. "These are requested projects from the barangays, released to local government units for implementation... That way, they would feel that the government is there to fulfill these needs," Avisado said.
But Drilon noted that the projects that would help restart livelihood in areas once infested with rebels could have been implemented by regular departments instead of a "secretariat.""Next year is an election year, and here is a secretariat who will be playing God to the barangays," he said.
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