Liberal Party (LP) lawmakers, who got zero or reduced infrastructure budgets for their constituents, shrugged off suggestions they only got their comeuppance for the acts of the Aquino administration. ADVERTISEMENT“If opposition solons [during the Aquino administration] received nothing for their districts or pet projects, then yes [it’s karma],” Baguilat said. “Those projects are not even initiated or submitted by the concerned Representatives since they are already integral to the Duterte administration’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ policy being implemented by the DPWH,” he added. During the Aquino administration even the districts of opposition leaders were given huge allocations,” he said. The LP issued a statement describing the defunding of opposition lawmakers as “an undisguised show of power with a clear message: We can do it because we can.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 22, 2017 23:03 UTC