{"id":17771,"date":"2014-07-02T06:23:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T22:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2014-07-02T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:02:20","slug":"heads-must-roll-jinggoy-on-dap-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/02\/heads-must-roll-jinggoy-on-dap-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heads must roll&#8217;\u2014Jinggoy on DAP ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11473\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jinggoy-Estrada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11473\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jinggoy-Estrada-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Jinggoy Estrada. Photo courtesy of Estrada's Facebook page.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jinggoy-Estrada-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jinggoy-Estrada.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Jinggoy Estrada. Photo courtesy of Estrada&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014Following the Supreme Court&#8217;s (SC) decision to declare the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) as unconstitutional, detained Senator Jinggoy Estrada said government officials must be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thank the Supreme Court for respecting and upholding the Congress\u2019 exclusive power of the purse,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adding that the controversial fund is not included in the General Appropriations Act, \u00a0Estrada supported SC&#8217;s ruling saying DAP on its face is &#8220;unconstitutional and has no basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that the highest court of the land said that the DAP is unconstitutional and illegal, heads must roll and budget officials must be held accountable,&#8221; Estrada said in a statement, which was also released through the senator&#8217;s official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada was earlier reported to have revealed how senators were given additional funds during the Corona impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>The Aquino administration, however denied the allegations saying that the funds were given in the form of bribes.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino, also later on clarified that the funds came from DAP&#8211;a stimulus fund scheme which realigns funds from stalled projects to boost the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Following the Supreme Court&#8217;s (SC) decision to declare the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) as unconstitutional, detained Senator Jinggoy Estrada said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[693,1585],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-dap","tag-jinggoy-estrada","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}