MANILA, Philippines — Aside from realigning this year’s budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), the Senate can also give the task force a zero budget next year.
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon explained that the President has the power to realign this year’s P16B budget of the counter-insurgency task force to the pandemic response.
The Senate, meanwhile, can move to give the task force a zero budget in 2022.
“Theoretically, if we are minded…because of the position occupied or which Parlade was designated, the Senate can give them a zero budget in 2022,” Drilon told reporters on Monday, referring to NTF-Elcac spokesperson Lt…
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