“My [sub-]committee proposed to delete something like P63 billion from the budget of the DPWH,” Lacson said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT“We proposed at least to the mother committee (Senate finance committee) to delete P63 billion from the budget of the DPWH,” he added. Ang total nito P63 billion,” the senator explained. The P63 billion, according to Lacson, should be realigned to fund the national broadband program of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). He also proposed that P20 billion of the P63 billion be diverted to help areas hit by recent typhoons.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 25, 2020 01:30 UTC