This institutionalized largesse is yet another example of how the Duterte administration strained the Constitution. The Marcos government can show the world that it is different.
I was already a lawyer when I stopped believing in this fairy tale. Back then, we were busy with the Supreme Court case to declare the. We went through the General Appropriation Act , National Expenditure Program and other documents from the ‘90s up to the 2000s. The files almost filled a room. What we saw in them blew our minds: years of largesse with billions sunk into “soft projects” and other questionable items.
This trend started when then-president Rodrigo Duterte came along. Unbound by the sense of fiscal propriety that limited his predecessors, his team bloated the lump sum funds of the Office of the President by the billions. It also explains the budget process, which revolves around the President’s “grocery list” for the coming year. Congress makes sure the “items” in that list are legitimate. This is to make sure that government officials aren’t just buying yachts. Every agency is accountable to Congress. Every office needs to explain why and how they will be spending the money. Even the Supreme Court is not exempt.on whether they’ve been used properly.
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