By Raïssa Robles

The move of the House of Representatives to slash the Commission on Human Rights budget to the equivalent of US$20 may have unintended consequences, such as rendering the sister of Senate President Koko Pimentel III jobless.

Ironically, the man of the hour who egged on the vote is House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, a new member of Pimentel’s PDP-Laban Party, the de facto ruling party of President Rodrigo Duterte.