THE “bad faith” in the implementation of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) can be gleaned from a bill against budget impoundment that then-senator Benigno Aquino 3rd had filed in the previous Congress and which explicitly gave importance to legislative imprimatur in handling supposed savings.
When Aquino filed Senate Bill 3121 or the Budget Impoundment Control Act, he proposed that “whenever the President, the Secretary of Budget and Management, the head of any department, agency or instrumentality of the government proposes to defer the release of any appropriation for a specific purpose, program, activity or project, the President shall transmit to the House of Representatives and the Senate a special message” about the specifics of the new budget plan.
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