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MANILA, Philippines — The public must keep an eye on how the government will spend the unprogrammed appropriations it had “bloated” in the 2024 national budget, a budget expert cautioned on Tuesday, in light of recent proposals allowing the government to tap state firms’ revenues for unprogrammed funds.
THERE is nothing unconstitutional with increasing the Executive’s unprogrammed appropriations in the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri yesterday said as he defended the decision of the bicameral conference budget committee to hike the allocation by P455 billion.