{"id":33075,"date":"2014-11-26T11:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33075"},"modified":"2025-01-17T03:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:53:19","slug":"abad-2015-budget-is-pork-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/26\/abad-2015-budget-is-pork-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Abad: 2015 budget is pork-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12006\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/florencio-abad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12006\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/florencio-abad-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Budget Secretary Florencio Abad. Photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum 2014 \/ Fotopedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/florencio-abad-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/florencio-abad-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/florencio-abad-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/florencio-abad.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Budget Secretary Florencio Abad. Photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum 2014 \/ Fotopedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Dismissing earlier claims against the 2015 budget, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on Tuesday said that the country\u2019s budget for next year is free from pork barrel.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite allegations of senators including Sen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy addyi online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearsonchiropractic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/addyi.html\">https:\/\/www.pearsonchiropractic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/addyi.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Miriam Defensor-Santiago that the budget included a P37.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy trazodone online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearsonchiropractic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/trazodone.html\">https:\/\/www.pearsonchiropractic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/trazodone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>3 billion in lump-sum appropriations.<\/p>\n<p>The budget is, instead, an exercise of the lawmakers\u2019 power of the purse, according to Sen. Francis Escudero.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also denied claims that the 2015 budget signals the return of the controversial pork barrel funds of the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Abad also defended the definition of \u2018savings\u2019 in the budget which was also criticized by Santiago on earlier reports.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy valtrex online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearsonchiropractic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/valtrex.html\">https:\/\/www.pearsonchiropractic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/valtrex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur position is as much as possible, there should be no savings,\u201d Abad told the Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the reality is that events happen [such as] calamities, lawsuits, nonfilling up of positions, new technologies, etc., that help us generate savings, make us terminate or discontinue projects or induce efficiency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut with all the reforms being introduced, savings, if at all generated, will be a small portion of the budget,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Dismissing earlier claims against the 2015 budget, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on Tuesday said that the country\u2019s budget &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33075","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\/33075","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=33075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284815,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33075\/revisions\/284815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}