President certifies lump sum P14.6 billion supplemental budget as urgent

President Benigno Aquino 3rd has certified the lump sum P14.6 billion supplemental budget as urgent, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. said Thursday.

Belmonte made the announcement a day after the House Committee on Appropriations approved the P14.6 billion supplemental budget which will be one of the sources of the P38.8 billion budget identified by the President Benigno Aquino 3rd as an urgent allocation for the victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda which left at least 5,500 people dead and reduced a number of Visayas provinces to Ground Zero.