No ‘pork’ in Senate version of 2021 nat’l budget, Angara assures
Sen. Juan Edgardo ‘’Sonny’’ M. Angara today assured Filipinos that the Senate version of the proposed 2021 P4.5-trillion national budget would not contain any ”pork barrel” allocations that usually have hundreds of millions of pesos.As chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance that examines national budgets, Angara said there would be no post enactment identification of projects after the passage of the national budget.
‘’Dapat klaro na. Walang blank check na isusulat pa lang after ng passage ng budget dapat klaro ang pupuntahan ng pera ng bayan,’’ Angara said. In the proposed 2021 budget, Lacson questioned why ‘’the Department of Public Works and Highways has P786 billion budget; P469 billion infrastructure projects re-appropriated, and the Department of Agriculture has its budget cut by 76 percent; The administration said it wants to focus on ‘Plant, Plant, Plant.’ Two agencies whose budgets do not match government priorities.’’
The proposed 2021 national budget is currently being examined by the House of Representatives whose budget version would eventually be transmitted to the Senate.
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