The plan to slash the DOTr budget arose at the start of plenary debates on the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 where massive underspending of agencies was taken up. “They’ve (DOTr) poor disbursement rates. He said lawmakers are now reluctant to give the DOTr and other agencies with poor disbursement records the budgets they are asking for. “It is sad to say that the Build, Build, Build program of the administration is a dismal failure. We lost close to P120 billion, P150 billion because of that fight,” Cayetano told CNN Philippines.

Source: Philippine Star November 12, 2019 23:10 UTC