Lawmakers talk about lower budget, impeachment for Sara Duterte

Name: Lawmakers talk about lower budget, impeachment for Sara Duterte | The wRap
Uploaded: 2024-08-30T15:36:04+00:00
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00:00Today on Rappler

00:12What's the blowback for Vice President Sara Duterte's behavior in the House?

00:16Congressmen are talking about a lower budget and even impeachment.

00:21Government files a money laundering complaint against Alice Guo and Cassandra Ong.

00:25The Banco Central ng Pilipinas terminates its contract with a supplier of national IDs.

00:31Swedish pop group ABBA asks Donald Trump to stop using their music and videos at his campaign

00:35rallies.

00:36And SB19's Josh Cullen releases his new song, Silent Cries, Friday, August 30.

00:44Some congressmen are considering a lower budget for Vice President Sara Duterte's office

00:48in 2025, and at least one lawmaker has brought up impeachment.

00:53This after Duterte had refused to defend her budget and answer questions regarding

00:57her confidential expenses in previous years in a House hearing Tuesday, August 27.

01:03ACT teacher's representative Franz Castro says the notice of disallowance slapped by

01:07the Commission on Audit is tantamount to misuse of public funds.

01:11She adds, the misappropriation of confidential funds and her refusal to offer an explanation

01:16are clear bases for impeachment.

01:19She says Duterte's stonewalling of legitimate questions regarding her use of public funds

01:24showed disrespect for the basic principles of checks and balances, transparency and accountability.

01:29In an interview with Rappler, Manila Rep. Joel Chua says,

01:33If she continues to act that way, siguro we will call for the reduction of her budget.

01:45Three government agencies file a money laundering complaint against 24 people, including dismissed

01:49Bamban Mayor Alice Guo and Cassandra Ong.

01:52The Anti-Money Laundering Council, Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, and the National

01:57Bureau of Investigation filed the complaint August 30 before the Justice Department.

02:02It involves the operation of the raided Philippine offshore gaming operator in Bamban, Tarlac,

02:06but it also includes Ong, who is an officer of leasing company Whirlwind.

02:11The complaint alleges the dozen businesses under Guo's name were meant to conceal the

02:15true nature of their businesses and to make it appear that they are engaged in legitimate

02:19activities.

02:21The former mayor earlier said in a Senate hearing, her name was just used in the POGO's

02:25documents.

02:26She is facing a separate trafficking complaint before the DOJ.

02:31The Banco Central ng Pilipinas terminates its contract with the supplier of national

02:35IDs, Allcard Inc.

02:38Sources tell Rappler, the BSP's monetary board decided on the termination a month ago.

02:43The board cited multiple failures on the part of ACI.

02:48ACI was tapped for the production of 116 million national ID cards.

02:55Under the 2.1 billion peso contract, ACI was supposed to lease printing machines to the

02:59BSP.

03:00The BSP still has its 495 million peso contract with ACI for the personalization of the national

03:06ID cards.

03:08The BSP has yet to comment on how the recent termination will affect this other contract.

03:13ACI earlier lost a bid to supply plastic cards for driver's licenses, partly due to concerns

03:18about their ability to deliver.

03:20While the BSP and ACI are settling their legal dispute, tens of millions of Filipinos will

03:25be left waiting for a physical national ID.

03:30The members of Swedish pop group ABBA asks US Republican presidential candidate Donald

03:34Trump to stop using their music and videos at his campaign rallies.

03:38ABBA hits The Winner Takes It All, Money, Money, Money, and Dancing Queen are played

03:43at a campaign rally by Trump and his running mate JD Vance on July 27 in Minnesota.

03:48The band's record label, Universal Music, says no permission or license had been granted

03:53to the Trump campaign.

03:54It requests the videos be immediately taken down.

03:58Over the years, several artists have objected to their music being played at Trump events.

04:03This includes British singer-songwriter Adele, rock band R.E.M., and the late American singer-guitarist

04:08Tom Petty.

04:10Canadian singer Celine Dion and her label earlier this month called the use of her performance

04:14in the Trump campaign unauthorized.

04:17SB19's Josh Cullen releases his new song, Silent Cries, Friday, August 30.

04:24Described as an emo-laced, guitar-driven song, the single comes ahead of his first solo album

04:29to be released on September 6.

04:36The lyrics of the song are his most confessional and somber ones to date.

04:40The P-Pop group's lead rapper also releases the music video for the song, Friday.

04:54Josh is seen going back to places from his childhood, reminiscing the memories from those

04:58places, holding on to objects from the past.

05:01His first solo album is titled Lost and Found.

05:05His group, SB19, recently received the Voices of Asia Award at Billboard Korea's K-Power

05:09100 event, together with P-Pop girl group, Beanie.

05:15And that's today's rap.

05:16I'm JC Gotinga.

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