Palace: US will reject proposed security aid cut

Malacañang is confident the United States government will turn down a bill filed in the US House of Representatives that will withhold funding for Philippine security forces until the government puts an end to human rights violations.

In sponsoring and introducing the Philippine Human Rights Act on September 17, Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild cited the Duterte administration’s “brutal regime using the pretext of the so-called anti-terrorism law to ramp up efforts targeting labor organizers, workers, and political opponents.”