President Benigno Aquino 3rd may have cut the practice of giving Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to lawmakers, but the President will continue to get his own “pork barrel” in lump sum.

In fact, under the proposed General Appropriations Act (GAA) for 2014, the President’s “pork” allocation is a whopping P1 trillion.

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