House wants Duterte to sack Budget chiefBy GLEE JALEAhome/News/Top Stories/House wants Duterte to sack Budget chiefCLAIMING various irregularities in the proposed 2019 budget, the House of Representatives passed a resolution on Wednesday calling for the sacking of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, a day after he was summoned to a “question hour.”The House adopted Resolution 2365 filed by Minority Leader Danilo Suarez “urging the Office of the President to reconsider the appointment of Honorable Benjamin Diokno as Secretary of Department of Budget and Management based on the findings during the question hour.”“Kung ako siya, magreresign na ako (If I were the Budget Secretary, I would resign). Diokno said: “We want an infrastructure budget [that is higher] and we have fiscal space, so we decided to augment or add to the P480 billion another P75 billion, not P51 billion,” Diokno said. He maintained that the additional amount should not be called an insertion as it was part of the President’s budget. “So in this whole tete-a-tete we’re having, it’s clear now that the insertion is not P51 billion but P75 billion. The Budget secretary denied having connections to C.T.

Source: Manila Times December 12, 2018 16:17 UTC