This was how Senator Panfilo M. Lacson best described some lawmakers who tried to realign at least P80 billion from the Duterte administration’s “Build, Build, Build” flagship program to their districts’ “pet projects” under the 2020 P4.1 trillion national budget.Lacson, an anti-pork barrel advocate, said he supports the decision of President Duterte and the Department of Budget and Management to withhold the release of these congressional realignments.
‘’This is one reason why I continue to support the leadership of President Duterte in spite of some disagreements with him over some policy issues: He has time and again displayed the strong political will, even against many self-proclaimed allies in Congress whose loyalty clearly lies where the money lies,’’ he explained.
Lacson, a former Philippine National Police chief, said such “allies” have the propensity to praise Duterte to high heavens and never criticize him, but with self-aggrandizement and greed as their only motivation and nothing else.
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