Palace ally says DAP scrap can sap Aquino

Scrapping the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), funded by unobligated fund and savings that the President taps to spend for his priority social services initiatives, will undermine the Presidency, a House leader warned on Friday.

Rep. Romero Quimbo of Marikina, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, issued the warning a day after his colleagues party-list Reps. Carlos Zarate of Bayan Muna, Luz Ilagan of Gabriela and Terry Ridon of Kabataan, among others, filed the sixth petition against the DAP before the Supreme Court.