MANILA, Philippines — Senate finance committee chair Sonny Angara and House appropriations chair Eric Yap are eyeing the extension of the effectivity of the 2020 national budget and the Bayanihan To Recover As One Act to help cushion the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the recent typhoons that ravaged the country.
Angara and Yap expressed this after the bicameral conference committee adopted and approved the final version of the proposed national budget for 2021, which is seen to drive the country’s pandemic and calamity response and recovery efforts.
“What we are going to work on once we approve the budget is the extension of Bayanihan 2 and the 2020 [General Appropri…
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