More and more, it is becoming apparent that Senate President Franklin Drilon and Budget Secretary Butch Abad had a greater hand in the use—we will not yet say manipulation—of the Disbursement Acceleration Program or DAP than what they have admitted thus far.

Prior to his elevation as Senate president, Drilon was chairman of the Senate finance committee.

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