Vice President Sara Duterte (File photo from the Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau) MANILA, Philippines — Over a fifth of the proposed budget for the Office of Vice President (OVP) will be used for its 'confidential' expenditures in 2024, the second year in a row that the OVP would be seeking a fund that does not require public disclosure of its accounting, unlike other regular government spending. As education secretary, Vice President Sara Duterte again proposed a P150-million confidential fund for next year, the same amount that was given by Congress to the Department of Education (DepEd) in the 2023 budget.

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