Solon: Pass ARISE bill as a package, not as separate budget items
MANILA, Philippines --- A lawmaker is calling on the government to pass the proposed P1.3 trillion stimulus bill in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as a package and not as separate items in the national budget. Marikina City 2nd District Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo, an economist who serves as one of the authors of the Accelerated Recovery and Investments Stimulus for the Economy (ARISE) bill in the House, said the measure was the "elephant in the room" of President Rodrigo Duterte's State of the Nation Address (SONA) earlier this week. "The SONA was all about ARISE but ironically, nothing about ARISE," Quimbo said in a press briefing, as she urged the Senate and the exec… Keep on reading: Solon: Pass ARISE bill as a package, not as separate budget items
Solon: Pass ARISE bill as a package, not as separate budget items
MANILA, Philippines --- A lawmaker is calling on the government to pass the proposed P1.3 trillion stimulus bill in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as a package and not as separate items in the national budget. Marikina City 2nd District Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo, an economist who serves as one of the authors of the Accelerated Recovery and Investments Stimulus for the Economy (ARISE) bill in the House, said the measure was the "elephant in the room" of President Rodrigo Duterte's State of the Nation Address (SONA) earlier this week. "The SONA was all about ARISE but ironically, nothing about ARISE," Quimbo said in a press briefing, as she urged the Senate and the exec… Keep on reading: Solon: Pass ARISE bill as a package, not as separate budget items