Magic? P26.7 billion inserted in 2024 DSWD budget allegedly used for Cha-Cha drive

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The Senate probe into the people’s initiative discovers the push for charter change can be traced back to the budget deliberations in 2023.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/billions-inserted-dswd-budget-charter-change-drive-2024/

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00:00 The Senate probe into the People's Initiative discovers the push for charter change can

00:05 be traced back to the budget deliberations in 2023.

00:10 Senators are dumbfounded after they found during a hearing on February 13, some P26.7

00:15 billion "magically appeared" in the approved 2024 budget of the Department of Social Welfare

00:21 and Development.

00:23 The funds in question are supposedly for financial aid of the agency called Ayuda sa Kaposangkita

00:28 or AKAP.

00:30 Senator Aimee Marcos, who also sponsored the 2024 DSWD budget, says she was unaware of

00:36 the project.

00:37 She alleges the AKAP funds were used to lure people to sign in favor of amending the Constitution

00:42 through a People's Initiative.

00:44 Senior House Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzalez Jr. counters February 14, the Senate gave

00:50 its stamp of approval to AKAP when it passed the then-proposed 2024 national budget in

00:55 November 2023.

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