MANILA, Philippines — The bicameral conference committee has retained the P19-billion proposed funding of the controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in its approved version of the 2021 budget.
Senate finance committee chair Sonny Angara and House appropriations chair Eric Yap both confirmed this Wednesday 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.
“I think it’s intact… The Senate definitely did not touch it,” Angara told reporters when asked aboutthe NTF-ELCAC’s budget.
“We didn’t …
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