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No'pork'in 2020 budget - Salceda Means, made the assurance fol-
BY CATHERINE S. VALENTE
lowing reports that P35.2 billion
in "porkbarrel" funds ofsenators
l LBAY Rep. foey Salceda assured the and congressmen would be em-
Priority Development Assistance kickbacks from their PDAF-fund-
Fund (PDAF) orthe "porkbarrel" ed projects.
of lawmakers. Salceda is confidentthe budget
Membeis of the Senate and the measure will be passed bY the

/l public on Wednesday that there were bedded in the proposed budget House were given "pork"
-Pi00
million for senators and P70
House on Friday.
"The 2020 budget, I'm sure,
d rlno "pork barrel" insertions in the for next year.
"It is pork-free based on Su- million for congressmen to will be approved by September
budget measure ttiat was certified as urgent - the earliest approved bud-
preme Court standards. And finance their pet projects. 20
-
get at the House in history" he
by President Rodrigo Duterte. there were no new insertions," Several senators and congress-
Salceda said in an intewiew in men are facing plunder and graft said. "We iust want to prove that
The House of Representatives 2020 onFliday. , Malacaflang. charges before the Sandigan- the 'Duterte Super Coalition' in
ls set to approve the Pioposed Salceda, chairman of the In 2013, the Supreme Court bayan for allegedly pocketing the House is working, and I hope
P4.1-trillion national budget for House Commiltee on Ways and declared as unconstitutional the billions in commissions.and the so-called 'Dutene Super Co-

alition of 20' in the Selate will

o PAo- - Ai'l do the same."
The passage ofthe 2019 budget
was delayed for months because
of questionable allocations and
alleged pork insertions in Con-
gress.
The House version ofthe Pro-
posed 2020 budget was refiled
after it was withdrawn last week
amid the request of some law-
makers for additional allocation
for infrastructure projects.