Next year’s P3.76-trillion national budget will still be passed despite a dispute between the Senate and the House of Representatives over funding for the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said on Thursday.

“I am not worried what is going to happen. I will just look at what will come out of the third chamber,” Diokno told reporters at the sidelines of The Arangkada Philippines Forum 2017,

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