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For 3 years now, the budget department under Secretary Florencio Abad has been realigning items in the budget without written consent from the President. This was pointed out by Senior Justice Antonio Carpio on the first day of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the government’s pump-priming scheme, known as the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), on Tuesday, November 19. Created by the executive branch in 2011, the DAP is used to boost spending and help uplift the economy. Legal questions over DAP arose after Senator Jinggoy Estrada revealed in a Senate privilege speech that senators were given additional funds after they delivered what Malacañang wanted in May 2012: the conviction of former chief justice Renator Corona in the impeachment trial.
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