MANILA, Philippines — Senator Sonny Angara assured Wednesday there are no “pork” allocations in the bicameral conference committee’s version of the proposed national budget for 2021.
Angara made the remark after the bicam adopted and approved its version of the proposed national budget for 2021, which is seen to drive the country’s pandemic and calamity response and recovery efforts.
“We complied with the Supreme Court decision on the pork barrel. We avoided lump sum as much as possible, we tried to itemize them… I think we complied with that,” Angara told reporters.
“In terms of pork barrel, there is no post-enactment identification or participation on the par…
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