Zubiri: We have ‘institutional insertions,’ not P200M budget

Senators don't have a P200-million allocation in the 2019 budget, but Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri admitted that "all of us have institutional insertions." Zubiri was reacting to the reported P200-million budget that each senator would get next year for their pet projects. At a regular forum at the Senate on Thursday, the senator was asked if the proposed projects worth P200 million. "No," Zubiri quickly said, " Well, of course, all of us have institutional insertions." He explained that "institutional insertions" are amendments they propose for certain projects such as, for instance, an additional budget for the construction of an airport in Mindanao. These a...

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