IN EXCHANGE FOR PASSAGE OF NOY’S ‘LUMP SUM’ ALLOCATIONS WITHOUT QUESTION
GMA gets P2.2B DPWH pork; solons given extra P50M
By Gerry Baldo 10/09/2010President Aquino and his Budget chief Florencio “Butch” Abad will get what they want from Congress by way of its members no longer questioning the lump sum appropriations insisted on by Malacañang in the 2011 national budget, with former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo getting the biggest “pork barrel” from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) “pork” for her district’s projects.
In exchange for the House of Representatives looking the other way on Aquino’s non-transparent lump sum appropriations in the tens of billions, congressmen will be getting P50 million for their districts’ projects from the DPWH’s budget.
This is apart from their P70 million each in their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), more commonly known as pork barrel, with Arroyo getting a cool P2.2 billion for her Pampanga district alone.
This came about after congressmen, disgruntled over the claimed inequitable distribution of the national budget, got that additional P50 million each, over and above their P70 million pork barrel allocation for their respective congressional districts through the DPWH, in effect creating a pork on pork barrels for themselves.
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Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101009hed1.html
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