On a US Bill Seeking to Suspend Security Assistance to PH

More at: https://pinglacson.net/2020/09/24/on-a-us-bill-seeking-to-suspend-security-assistance-to-ph/

Members of the US Congress are within their rights to file any legislative measure under any circumstances. As in our case, it will have to go through the mill of first reading and referral, committee hearings and floor debates.

If adopted and approved, the said bill - H.R. 8313 - will not only be our loss but theirs as well, considering that a major part of the security assistance being extended to the Philippines is used to combat terrorism, which knows no borders and timing. And they know that for a fact.

And since the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) is still existing, they may have to resolve that as a legal issue in their deliberations.