House appropriations panel OK’s P6-B OP budget

IN JUST two minutes, the Office of the President (OP) earned the approval of the House of Representatives’ appropriations committee for its P6-billion proposed budget for 2018. By tradition, the budgets of the Office of the President and the Office of the Vice-President are not scrutinized at the committee level. The proposed budget of the OP is divided thus: Personnel Services – P994.1 million; Maintenance Operating and Other Expense or MOOE – P4.6 billion; Capital Outlay – P370 million. The MOOE includes confidential expenses (P1.25 billion); intelligence expenses (P1.25 billion); and extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses (P19 million). Travel expenses were pegged at P884.9 million. — interaksyon.com