The staggering revelations that continue to come out of the Senate’s investigation into the P11.486 billion worth of contracts snagged by woefully undercapitalized Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. are pointing to “the makings of a scam of the decade,” as Bayan secretary-general Renato Reyes Jr. has put it. It does not take much for an average Filipino, whose taxes may have been used to enrich those heartless enough to profit amid a pandemic, to arrive at the same
Under the Constitution the power of the purse belongs to Congress, which is the power to appropriate public funds for a specific public purpose. In contrast, the power to spend what has been appropriated by Congress belongs to the Executive who is President. This is part of the check and balance enshrined in the Constitution. In 2013, the Supreme Court in Belgica v. Executive Secretary struck down the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) as unconstitutional for two principal reasons. First, legislators were allowed to implement projects that Congress funded under the General Appropriations Act (GAA). Under the Constitution, legislators can only
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