MALACAÑANG has slammed detained Sen. Leila de Lima for casting doubt on President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that public funds were running out amid the government’s efforts to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic in the country. Palace ...
Duterte’s claim that public funds were running out amid the government’s efforts to combat thePalace spokesman Salvador Panelo on Saturday said De lima should review first the President’s public“The detained Senator De Lima is blabbering from ignorance.
“Wala pa tayo sa puntong ‘yon. Dapat makumbinse tayo na wala na talagang pera ang gobyerno in the budgets ofMalampaya, road users’ fund, etc. to begin contemplating the selling of our assets,” De Lima said in a“Saka nasaan na nga ba ang napakalaking intel funds, baka naman pwedeng magamit din ito ?” she added.
Duterte earlier directed Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd to look for additional funds to boost theHe admitted that the P270 billion authorized by Congress would not be enough to cover governmentHe said the P275-billion fund still needed to be collected in the second and third quarters of 2020.money.
“What is so exasperating is that we are trying our best… There’s no source of income now except, maybe,Dominguez had said the government’s economic managers and the Central Bank had put together a monetary package of up P1.17 trillion or 5 to 6 percent of the country’s gross domestic product to boostHe said that the bulk of the funding would go “to support the economy,” while the rest would fund
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