The director general of the National Budget, Luis Reyes Santos says that the government has eliminated RD$20 billion in discretional funds that had been used by heads of public institutions. Santos called it a revolution in the transparent management of public resources. He said that now everything has to be accounted for in the same way.
He said that there would be no longer be any autonomous organizations, apart from state security institutions, which could continue using special accounts at their own discretion. He went on to say that society could now be secure in the knowledge that public money would be spent with more quality and more transparency. Reyes said that the government was aware that the institutions did not have the budgets they wanted in order to be able to implement what was needed but the budget was what was possible, not what was ideal.
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