Government spending surged in March, a Cabinet official said on Monday, resulting in a substantially higher first quarter budget deficit.
Quoting a preliminary Bureau of the Treasury report, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd told reporters that the January-March shortfall had reached P162.2 billion.
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