Velasco: P5-billion increase in calamity fund to be pushed into 2021 budget
The House is set to advance in the deliberations of the bicameral conference committee the additional P5-billion calamity fund to recover the areas devastated by the previous typhoons. “Given the tremendous damage caused by these successive strong typhoons, it is imperative that we augment the calamity fund in next year’s spending plan. We have to…