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Duterte signs P4.5-T national budget for 2021 By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News
Published December 28, 2020 6:25pm
Updated December 28, 2020 7:20pm President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday signed into law the P4.5-trillion national budget for 2021. Duterte signed the General Appropriations Act of 2021 before some members of Congress such as Senate President Vicente Sotto III and House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco in Malacañang. LOOK: President Rodrigo Duterte signs P4.5-T national budget for 2021 in the presence of some lawmakers from both houses of Congress. @gmanews Next year’s budget is expected to fund measures aimed at improving the country’s healthcare system, ensuring food security, increasing investments in public and digital infrastructure, and helping communities cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Alex Nueva España/Senate PRIB/ MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Sotto said he sees no issue with President Duterte’s admission that several people in government, particularly soldiers, were given doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm ahead of the approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong about that. There is no law that says you cannot take any medicine or vaccine that FDA has not approved,” Sotto said in a message to reporters.
He also pointed out that there is no law prohibiting people from putting themselves at risk or committing suicide.
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