Sara Duterte says no confidential fund proposed for OVP's 2025 budgetMANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte said that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) did not request confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) from the 2025 national budget. “For the Office of the Vice President, no, wala kaming proposal ng confidential funds for next year,” Duterte said in an interview with reporters. (For the Office of the Vice President, no, we do not have a proposal for confidential funds for next year.) A month later, the OVP retracted its appeal to receive P650 million in confidential funds from the 2024 national budget. The first petitioners assailed the constitutionality of the P125 million transfer of the Office of the President’s contingency fund to the OVP’s CIF in 2022.

Source: Philippine Star June 30, 2024 16:55 UTC