THE move by the House of Representatives to reject an initiative by the Duterte administration to switch to a cash-based system for the national budget could be sending next year’s proposed P3.757-trillion appropriations back to the drawing board.

What is ironic about that decision is that the reason for the legislators’ rejection of the proposed budget was based on precisely the sort of government inefficiency the cash-based budget is intended to prevent.

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