An almost forgotten episode in Philippine history is when a smuggling scandal that implicated two congressmen in the late 1980s led to the a near-zero budget for the office that wrote the controversial report
Calls to grant a government agency zero budget are not new, and no institution was actually fully deprived of funding in recent Philippine history.
According to Almonte, he once sent a confidential policy report to then-finance secretary Vicente “Ting” Jayme, listing possible courses of action to disempower smugglers. The media got hold of a copy, and zeroed in on the contents of the annex, which name-dropped “public personalities… as possibly involved in smuggling activities.”
“A majority in Congress, pressured by some of their peers, exacted their revenge and slashed our proposed annual budget from P121 million to P1. Asked by their reporters if this move was equivalent to the abolition of the EIIB, Majority Floor Leader Francisco Sumulong said, ‘In effect, yes,'” Almonte wrote in his memoir.
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