{"id":32792,"date":"2014-11-25T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T06:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32792"},"modified":"2014-11-25T20:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:58:45","slug":"savings-pork-two-dangerous-minefields-miriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/25\/savings-pork-two-dangerous-minefields-miriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Savings, pork two \u2018dangerous minefields\u2019 \u2013 Miriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13540\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Miriam_Defensor_Santiago.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13540\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Miriam_Defensor_Santiago-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Miriam Defensor-Santiago \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Miriam_Defensor_Santiago-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Miriam_Defensor_Santiago.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miriam Defensor-Santiago \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Sen Miriam Defensor Santiago yesterday described the redefinition of savings and the retention of pork barrel allocation as \u201ctwo dangerous minefields\u201d that have raised questions on the constitutionality of the proposed budget for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago urged her colleagues to retain the Section 91 of the general provisions which requires the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to submit a report on compliance with lump sums reportorial requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Also on her privilege speech, Santiago asked them to revert to the old definition of savings.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that the budget for next year is something that will allow administration candidates to benefit in the coming elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives too much money where it should not be placed. It does not give enough to where it is needed,\u201d Santiago said in a press briefing after her speech. \u201cIt\u2019s a very lopsided budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting on the way the budget was created, she said that it was \u201ccleverly crafted\u201d that one will be able to \u201csee through the device that it is meant to give heads of certain agencies with grassroots connections or relationships much more money for topics not necessarily covered by their mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Sen Miriam Defensor Santiago yesterday described the redefinition of savings and the retention of pork barrel allocation as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792","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=32792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}