Tag: marcos jr administration
Pork barrel 2026 budget fails development
Enero 5, 2026
Contrary to official claims, the budget does not mark a shift toward a genuinely “people-centered development agenda”. It remains oriented toward short-term political survival rather than long-term development outcomes.
2026 Budget: Sound and fury, signifying…
Disyembre 31, 2025
The budget that will soon be signed into law is rhetorically reformist but fundamentally politically functional, achieved at the expense of social and economic transformation.
On International Human Rights Day
Disyembre 10, 2025
The Marcos Jr government is losing even its token displays of respect for human rights as the country is plunged deeper into a worsening national crisis.
Gov’t debt balloons to feed Marcos admin’s huge pork barrel addiction
Disyembre 9, 2025
The huge increase in debt corresponds to huge increases in controversial indicators of pork barrel in the national budgets under Pres. Marcos Jr.
Groups hold media forum, exposing privatization as systemic theft at play
Disyembre 8, 2025
Public funds and resources continue to be used by bureaucrats and private entities to operate and manage public facilities to enrich themselves and stay in power.
Asks for the 2026 Budget
Disyembre 3, 2025
IBON Executive Director on the Php500 Noche Buena budget
Nobyembre 29, 2025
Porkiest of all
Nobyembre 28, 2025
Marcos Jr is the porkiest of them all, sustaining the past administration’s bloated, confidential, intelligence funds and contingent funds since the start of his term. But what clinches him the title “king of pork” is the scandalous spiking of unprogrammed appropriations under his watch.
