The total defilement of our politics

FRANCISCO S. TATAD

CONGRESS finally approved the P3.757-trillion 2019 General Appropriations Act this week, a full month after the fiscal year rolled off without an approved national budget, thereby keeping President Rodrigo Duterte from fully reenacting the 2018 budget, as Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo used to do, when she was president of the Philippines.