MEMBERS of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet came to the defense of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, after the House of Representatives called for his removal over the alleged “insertion” of billions of pesos in the proposed 2019 national budget.

Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno during the 2019 budget deliberation at the Plenary Hall of the Congress on December 12, 2018. PHOTO BY RUY MARTINEZ

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