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“Vice President Sara Duterte will no longer pursue the proposed confidential funds for the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Education because it has generated divisiveness.”
Sara Duterte Claim dated 9 Nov 2023.
Vera Files rated thisFlip-flop

What Vera Files found

Duterte earlier said that anyone who opposes the allocation of confidential funds is an enemy of the state.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Sara Duterte made this claim around 9 November 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 18 November 2023, 9 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.

Sara Duterte has 21 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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