The House of Representatives approved on second reading the proposed P2.606 billion national budget for 2015 minutes before midnight on Friday. The amount is P342 billion or 15 percent higher than this year’s budget of P2.264 trillion.

But Minority Leader Neri Colmenares claimed that the budget measure was “pork laden” because it allows the President to stop the implementation of projects not to his liking and use the allocations for other programs.

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