{"id":199710,"date":"2019-01-28T21:29:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=199710"},"modified":"2019-01-28T21:29:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:29:29","slug":"malacanang-expects-2019-budget-passed-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/28\/malacanang-expects-2019-budget-passed-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaca\u00f1ang expects 2019 budget passed this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_186205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186205\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43878804_744161139252274_2089681836396511232_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186205\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43878804_744161139252274_2089681836396511232_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43878804_744161139252274_2089681836396511232_n-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43878804_744161139252274_2089681836396511232_n-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43878804_744161139252274_2089681836396511232_n-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43878804_744161139252274_2089681836396511232_n-1-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made this remark amid ongoing bicameral conference committee deliberations on the General Appropriations Act for 2019. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/rpp.396756967326028\/744161135918941\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said that it expects the proposed PHP3.757-trillion national budget for 2019 to be passed this week.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made this remark amid ongoing bicameral conference committee deliberations on the General Appropriations Act for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so,\u201d Panelo said when asked if Palace expects the budget to be passed within the week.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo earlier said that Palace hopes the bicam to be \u201csmooth-sailing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Panelo said Palace will leave it to Congress to decide what to do with the PHP75 billion worth of flood control projects allegedly inserted into the 2019 national budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, that\u2019s the job of the Congress &#8212; to review, to amend, to restructure whatever,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said that the amount has been \u201credistributed\u201d to certain departments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that was scrapped. From what I gather from Senator (Panfilo) Lacson, that was redistributed to certain departments. So, it\u2019s still there,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>On January 21, the Senate approved on third and final reading the proposed 2019 budget after deleting the questionable PHP75-billion \u201cinsertion\u201d from the budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives approved their version of the bill on third and final reading on November 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said that it expects the proposed PHP3.757-trillion national budget for 2019 to be passed this week. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":186205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199710","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=199710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}