Manila Bulletin
'Look in the mirror,' Piñol told after assailing PBBM over bloated national debt
Zambales 1st District Rep. Jefferson Khonghun has accused former Agriculture secretary Manny Piñol of "brazen hypocrisy" for criticizing the current administration's national debt.
Khonghun stated that the country's debt significantly increased during former president Rodrigo Duterte's term, to which Piñol belonged.
The lawmaker asserted that after Benigno Aquino III's presidency, the national debt stood at P6.6 trillion, but the Duterte administration borrowed an additional P7.2 trillion.
Khonghun claimed that the debt incurred during Duterte's administration exceeded the combined debt accumulated by all previous Philippine presidents over 89 years.
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