Pimentel pushes for reduction of Office of the President confi funds

SENATOR Koko Pimentel believes that the Office of the President should have less confidential funds.

The senator said that they are pushing for the reduction of the CF.

Pimentel also said that they want to eliminate the funds of the OP.

He said that they are a civilian agency that is not meant to engage in intelligence gathering.

Pimentel and other senators welcomed the scrapping of the CIF of various agencies by the House of Representatives in next year’s budget and transferring the funds to agencies directly in charge of national security.

 “We also have to reduce the [confidential funds] of the OP and also eliminate the [intelligence] funds of the OP as it is a civilian agency, which is not and should not be engaged in intelligence gathering considering the workload of the OP,” Pimentel pointed out.

According to Pimentel, Congress should also include the CIF of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as he called on the executive branch to “leave [the sleuthing] to the specialists in the field of intelligence.”