National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos revealed that the budget of the NTF-Elcac in the 2023 General Appropriations Act was only P6.3 billion. /PDI
was only P6.3 billion. Carlos said P3.7 billion was slashed from its original P10-billion allocation. “It became 6.3 billion and we are still investigating why there was such a cut,” she said. Based on the website of the Department of Budget and Management, the 2023 national budget showed that the NTF-Elcac’s Barangay Development Program was given P6.336 billion.
Last year, a P10-billion budget was proposed for the NTF-Elcac, a significant increase from the P5.6 billion it received in 2022. During the budget deliberations, lawmakers realigned P5 billion from the NTF-Elcac budget but it was later restored in the reconciled version of the 2023 national budget. It remained unclear why the budget of the NTF-Elcac was at P6.3 billion in the 2023 GAA.
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