MALACAÑANG on Thursday rejected senators' proposal to realign the P19.1-billion funding proposed for a multiagency anti-insurgency task force to augment next year’s budget for housing and the government’s pandemic response.
Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. made the statement after Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said that at least seven senators were likely to vote in favor of either a partial or total realignment of the 2021 appropriation for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), which had generated a blowback for branding progressive lawmakers, activists and administration critics as communists and enemies of the state.
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