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DBM submits to Marcos copy of 2024 national budget

Apart from the budget bill, 37 other measures on LEDAC's priority agenda are still pending in various stages of the legislative process, and the president is expected to identify more in his SONA today.

The Marcos administration vowed to attain 100-percent electrification in the country by 2028. “We are also as relentless in pursuing total electrification. Since my assumption into office, almost half a million homes have been given access to electricity. We will spare no effort to achieve full household electrification by the end…

They filed a petition before High Court judge Lady Justice Mugure Thande.

AS the Second Regular Session resumes today (Monday), the House of Representatives will concentrate on passing the proposed 2024 General Appropriations Act and measures to carry out President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s promise to lower the price of rice to P20 per kilo, as well as the remaining priority bills. The…

Washington, DC (KINY) - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, secured investments for Alaska in the Energy and Water; Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD); and State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) Appropriations Act of 2024, which were approved by the committee will now advance to the full Senate for consideration.

(529 improvements) didn’t happen all at once: They’ve been enhanced many times over the years via bipartisan legislative initiatives, which show no signs of slowing.

In the current situation, we seems headed in the direction of the immediate past administration, but there is hope if the current administration can loosen itself from the apron strings of the immediate past government by eschewing the delusion itself that Nigeria belongs to the All Progressives Congress (APC), having been in power since 2015.

The administration's obsession with sloganeering does not bode well for the current situation when a vast majority of people have identified inflation, wages and jobs as their most urgent concerns.

A proposed 3.3% cut to physician pay would threaten access to care and efforts to bring more clinical oversight into nursing homes, advocacy groups are warning.