TWO lawmakers over the weekend opposed the decision of the House Committee on Appropriations to slash the budget of the Office of the Vice President by P1.2 billion, saying they should have followed "tradition" by showing the office "courtesy" in the budgeting process.
The panel's senior vice chairman, Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo, announced on Thursday that the OVP would receive a budget of P733 million from its original proposal of P2.037 billion for 2025. The P1.2 billion cut from the OVP budget would go instead to social assistance programs of the Department of Health and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
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