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As in the past, the proposed DPWH budget favors the current House leadership. But districts of pro-Sara House members will be starved of funds. So will Leyte 1st, Martin Romualdez’s district.
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Our three-step guide shows how to seamlessly track infrastructure projects near you. It also contains the full list of all district engineering offices and their corresponding congressional districts.
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PCIJ reviewed the proposed 2027 DPWH funding for every legislative district and found that 12 districts were each allocated exactly P500 million.
What do they have in common? Their representatives did not back VP Sara Duterte's impeachment.
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Our examination of proposed DPWH spending for 2027 shows the DPWH budget now favors the current House leadership. Meanwhile, districts with road-heavy projects emerge as the top recipients of proposed infrastructure funding.
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“Tahanang Taksil,” the documentary presented by @ABSCBNNews in PCIJ, has been named a finalist at the 37th NSM Media Awards!
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Last week, the Supreme Court urged Congress to enact an anti-political dynasty law, noting that its failure to do so for nearly four decades amounts to grave abuse of discretion. The HoR passed its version of the anti-dynasty bill last June.
The Marcos administration has made the anti-dynasty bill a priority measure. The question now is whether the president will spend political capital to overcome resistance from allies in Congress who themselves belong to dynasties.
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PCIJ extracted more than 30,000 school infrastructure contracts from the DPWH Transparency Portal. We tracked the contractors, locations, and funding sources for these projects.
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Help us investigate anomalous school infrastructure projects in your area.
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Persistent problems in planning, procurement, and project implementation continue to hound the school building program despite billions of pesos allotted to it.
The Philippine government awarded PHP 934 million worth of contracts funded through unprogrammed appropriations (UAs) for priority school infrastructure projects from 2023 to 2024. Nearly half of that amount flowed to Lipa City, the hometown of Executive Secretary Ralph Recto.
Read our analysis on unprogrammed appropriations: pcij.org/2025/11/06/marcos-u…
