WITH the recent increase of the budget for the Department of Public Works and Highways, or DPWH (amounting to more than a trillion pesos, according to news reports), at the cost of the budgets of some important agencies and projects like PhilHealth, DepEd and DSWD's 4Ps, talk of pork barrel has once again been heard from different sides of the political and social fence.
Not even to mention the controversial political caress called AKAP, which received a P26-billion allocation as a result of the bicameral conference for the 2025 budget, the president really has a lot on his plate as he tries to determine which line items need to be scarped for the people. Again, many critics exclaim that "pork barrel" is at the center of these budgetary circus-like developments.
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