Senators and congressmen were at a standoff at the bicameral conference committee last night over whether to restore P45 billion in public works funding cut by the Senate, with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) warning that the across-the-board reductions could render about 10,000 infrastructure projects “unimplementable.”

Senate postponed bicam talks after lawmakers failed to reconcile differences over proposed cuts to the DPWH budget.