Pinoy Daily News

The Department of Budget and Management has identified 19 incumbent senators as endorsers of projects under the Aquino administration's Disbursement Acceleration Program, which the Supreme Court declared as partially unconstitutional.

The DBM's latest list included Senators Miriam Defensor Santiago and Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, who were previously left out when Budget Secretary Florencio Abad first came out in 2013 with a list of senators that received DAP allocations for certain projects.

Abad came out with the new list after opposition leader Navotas Representative Tobias Tiangco in the course of the budget deliberations in the House of Representatives sought from the secretary a detailed report on the billions of pesos the Aquino administration released under the DAP.  

The House is in the middle of plenary deliberations on the proposed P2.6-trillion 2015 national budget.

The following senators' names appeared in the 139-page DBM's new list of DAP-funded projects: 

- Antonio Trillanes IV,

- Ramon Revilla Jr.,

- Loren Legarda,

- Jinggoy Estrada,

- Alan Peter Cayetano,

- Ralph Recto,

- Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III,

- Vicente "Tito" Sotto III,

- Teofisto Guingona III,

- Sergio Osmeña III,

- Juan Ponce Enrile,

- Franklin Drilon,

- Gringo Honasan,

- Francis Escudero, 

- Pia Cayetano,

- Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.,

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago and

- Juan Edgardo Angara (then Aurora congressman).

- Lito Lapid

Four former senators were also named by the DBM as endorsers of DAP projects. They are Manuel Villar, Francis Pangilinan, Edgardo Angara and Joker Arroyo.