Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
BY eliminating redundancy and inefficiency in bloated government offices, the economic team of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. planned to rightsize bureaucracy to ensure effective governance. The Department of Budget and Management projected that rightsizing would save at least P14.8 billion a year and they are now looking at 187 government offices, with around 2-million personnel, that may be simplified through merging, restructuring or abolition. Further, the Civil Service Commission pronounced its support to rightsizing provided it enhances efficiency. The lawmakers, on the other hand, have commented on the rightsizing issues and cautioned on the need for congressional intervention when the affected government office is created by law. As a start, the President signed Executive Order (EO) 1 on June 30, 2022 — "Reorganizing the Office of the President including the immediate offices and agencies under or attached to it, and the common staff support system; abolishing the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (2017) and the Office of the Cabinet Secretary (1987)."