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00:00 The Senate has quickly received more than P10 billion in funding from the Office of the President for the next year.
00:08 This was also an answer to the issue of confidential funds, which is of high significance.
00:12 Ma'am Gonzalez was the one who pointed it out.
00:14 The Senate can refuse to have confidential funds this year.
00:22 According to the Senate Secretary, they only have extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses
00:27 that are used for meetings, seminars, and other activities of the Senate.
00:31 And even though there was an allocation of confidential funds to the past Senators,
00:36 they were not spent and returned to the country.
00:40 Then since the Senate President Soto, he did not use it.
00:44 So maybe it's just a standby. They just want to have a standby, but they did not see the need.
00:50 That's possible.
00:51 The Senate Committee on Finance, in response to the complaints that there is no liquidation of extraordinary expenses,
00:57 is still being audited by the Commission on Audit.
01:00 Earlier, the Senate Committee quickly received the P10.7 billion 2024 budget of the Office of the President,
01:07 which has P4.56 billion in confidential and intelligence funds.
01:12 That is even though the Senate Minority Leader is the first to be cut off
01:15 because the Office of the President is a civilian agency and the intelligence of specialists should be allowed.
01:22 The Committee on Finance explained,
01:25 Do we want to select the President? If he said that it is necessary,
01:28 you know, there are many things that even me as a Senator, I don't know what I know.
01:33 Because only the President receives intelligence. He is the only one who knows.
01:37 He has something that we don't know.
01:39 The Committee on the Senate also reduced the plan of the Camera,
01:43 which is to transfer the more than P1 billion in confidential and intelligence funds of the civilian agencies
01:49 to agencies and programs to protect the West Philippine Sea.
01:53 For example, a Senator is pushing for the removal of the camera from the confidential funds of the Department of Information and Communications Technology
02:01 because it is necessary against cybercrimes.
02:04 A Senator of the Comfy and Intel Funds wants to give the NBI Cybercrime Division.
02:09 The Office of the Ombudsman said that they will reduce the confidential funds of the NBI from P1 million to P51 million for 2024.
02:18 The Office of a Solicitor General, Department of Foreign Affairs and Department of Migrant Workers also said that they do not need confidential funds.
02:26 For JMA Integrated News, Mav Gonzales, for Tutok 24 Horas.
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