Hontiveros pointed out that Duterte’s request of P500 million is bigger than the confidential funds of the Department of National Defense and National Intelligence Coordinating Agency in the proposed 2024 budget.
Meanwhile, Pimentel quizzed Duterte about the over the P125 million in confidential funds spent by OVP in 2022. This, despite it not being included in the 2022 approved budget.
Related: VP Sara: We can live without confi funds but work’s easier if we have it
“The OVP can only propose the use of confidential funds based on Joint Circular 2015-01 but we leave it to the decision and discretion of Congress [which] has the power of the purse to decide whether to grant confidential funds to our office,” she said.
“We can only propose but we are not insisting. We can live without confidential funds but of course our work will be much easier if we have the flexibility of confidential funds in monitoring the safe, secure, and successful implementations of the programs and projects and activities of the OVP,” she added.
May nalalaman pa silang drama drama alam naman nilang maapprove rin lang sa huli
