[OPINION] Giving credit where it is due

'The public must still take note of those who oppose limiting CIF to security agencies and requiring greater transparency in their use'

In fairness, Rep. Stella Quimbo kept her promise to raise questions at the congressional plenary budget deliberations on the P650-million confidential and intelligence funds given to VP/Sec. Sara. As senior vice chair of the appropriations committee, she also joined Rep. Mannix Dalipe and Nonoy Libanan in the small panel, headed by House Appropriations Committee Chair Elizaldy Co, that unanimously voted to realign P1.

Should the PRC receive credit as well for provoking the action of the House? I think not. Should the PRC suddenly become benevolent, a blessing devoutly to be wished, the government remains obligated to take the measures necessary to protect national sovereign rights. It cannot base its security solely on the policies pursued by its neighbors.

Instead, she undermined her position by giving her critics additional ammunition to attack her CIF, including her insistence that it took her 19 and not 11 days to disburse her 2022 augmented allocations. And then she doubled down and raised the stakes. The possible rejection of her CIF requests apparently caused her to doubt the wisdom of Congress.

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