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STATEMENT OF REP. EDCEL LAGMAN ON 2019 BUDGET

The House of Representatives and Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno are headed to an impasse on the adoption of annual cash-based appropriations in the 2019 General Appropriations Act (GAA) in lieu of the traditional obligation-based budgeting. The Members of the House are all against Diokno’s innovation that has resulted in serious budgetary cuts. The looming deadlock […]