As I’ve pointed out repeatedly since last fall, the General Assembly may face some tough decisions over the 2025-27 budget ...

Having lost 60,000 members in 2024 amid a slush funds scandal, the party is under pressure to seek out new blood, but its old ...

More known as pork barrel, these items, under certain circumstances, which unfortunately happen most of the time in the Philippines, involve serious breaches of public trust. In fact, such ...

Illinois families face the highest state and local tax burden in the country in 2025, with residents forced to pay at least ...

Herminio Teves to overturn her conviction over the irregular transfer of P10 million from the lawmaker’s pork barrel funds to a nongovernmental organization for agricultural projects.

one of the co-accused of then senator Juan Ponce Enrile in the alleged misuse of his discretionary or pork barrel fund. In the eight-page resolution dated February 11, 2025, the anti-graft court ...

Outside groups from across the ideological spectrum have spent decades documenting questionable government spending.

Over the past few years, lawmakers themselves have slipped into the state budget hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to local governments and nonprofits — pork-barrel spending, to put it ...

The Sandiganbayan has junked the 15 counts of graft against company driver Fernando Ramirez, one of the co-accused of then senator Juan Ponce Enrile in the alleged misuse of his discretionary or pork ...

The six-month continuing resolution before Congress would cut $1.2 billion from the Pentagon's health research into deadly ...

In contrast, Trump has pushed presidential bounds and was a profligate spender in his first term. Another difference: ...