VICE President Sara Duterte said unnamed lawmakers had demanded a kickback from the P5 billion budget that she sought to build classrooms when she was still secretary of the Department of Education.
"I was surprised that some lawmakers were asking, 'What's our cut in this?'" Duterte said in Filipino in a recorded interview released by the Office of the Vice President Tuesday. It was the second interview released by her office in so many days.
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