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utGrtesett0 The 2019 ceneral Appropriations
Bill (GAB) is officially enrolled for President Duterteb signature.
This, after Senate president Vicente Sotto III signed yesterdaythe printed copy of the F3.757trillion proposed budget for this
year desirite allegations about the supposed post-ratification realignments done by the House of Represenbuves. "I already signed the budget, the enrolled copy is now going to be na enrolled bill presented to president. But I placed my reservations on the signature," the Senate chief announced in a press briefing. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, and Senator Panfilo Lacson were with him as he made the'announcement.
Sotto said he has sent the enrolled budget bill to President Du-
terte the same afternoon,
along
with a letter expressing his, reservations in signing the GAB. In his annotation, Sotto told Duterte that he affixed his signature on the budget bill "with strong reservations" as he said his approval only covers "those items approved by the Bicameral Conference Com-
mittee and ratified by both Houses of Congress." He pointed out the supposed in-
ternal realignments made by the Lower Chamber to the government spending bill after its ratification, specifically, the reallocation of the F7s-billion of fund ftom the budget of the DPWH "It is my view that it is uncon-
stihnional that F75 billion worth of progmms/projects under the Local Infrastructure Program of
the Depanment of Public
Works
and Highways (DPWH) was funded through internal realignment, after the Bicameral Conference Committee Report was ratified,,, Sotto said in his letter. The realigned funds, according to Sotto, were sourced from the DPWHS asset, bridge, and network development progmms, as well as ftom flood management, and convergence and support programs.
In transmitting the enrolled bill, the Senate leader also atached a 157-page list containing p95 bil-
lion worth of programs or projects, including the F75 billion cut from the DPWH, funded from the House's realignments. Yhe President may wish to consider disapproving these unconsti-
tutional realignment, puBuant to his consitutional power to veto particular items in the General Appropiratios Bill," Sotto urged Du-
terte. (Vanne Terazola)
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rurncx zz, iorg
Im
utGrtesett0 The 2019 ceneral Appropriations
Bill (GAB) is officially enrolled for President Duterteb signature.
This, after Senate president Vicente Sotto III signed yesterdaythe printed copy of the F3.757trillion proposed budget for this
year desirite allegations about the supposed post-ratification realignments done by the House of Represenbuves. "I already signed the budget, the enrolled copy is now going to be na enrolled bill presented to president. But I placed my reservations on the signature," the Senate chief announced in a press briefing. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, and Senator Panfilo Lacson were with him as he made the'announcement.
Sotto said he has sent the enrolled budget bill to President Du-
terte the same afternoon,
along
with a letter expressing his, reservations in signing the GAB. In his annotation, Sotto told Duterte that he affixed his signature on the budget bill "with strong reservations" as he said his approval only covers "those items approved by the Bicameral Conference Com-
mittee and ratified by both Houses of Congress." He pointed out the supposed in-
ternal realignments made by the Lower Chamber to the government spending bill after its ratification, specifically, the reallocation of the F7s-billion of fund ftom the budget of the DPWH "It is my view that it is uncon-
stihnional that F75 billion worth of progmms/projects under the Local Infrastructure Program of
the Depanment of Public
Works
and Highways (DPWH) was funded through internal realignment, after the Bicameral Conference Committee Report was ratified,,, Sotto said in his letter. The realigned funds, according to Sotto, were sourced from the DPWHS asset, bridge, and network development progmms, as well as ftom flood management, and convergence and support programs.
In transmitting the enrolled bill, the Senate leader also atached a 157-page list containing p95 bil-
lion worth of programs or projects, including the F75 billion cut from the DPWH, funded from the House's realignments. Yhe President may wish to consider disapproving these unconsti-
tutional realignment, puBuant to his consitutional power to veto particular items in the General Appropiratios Bill," Sotto urged Du-
terte. (Vanne Terazola)
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