Rogin: Former secretaries urge Congress not to cut State’s funding
“Former secretaries urge Congress not to cut State’s funding”
By Josh Rogin
The Cable, April 27, 2010
If there is one issue that every one of the last seven secretaries of state agrees on, it’s the need to increase State Department and foreign assistance funding next year.
That’s the message Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Warren Christopher, Lawrence Eagleburger, James Baker, George Shultz, and Henry Kissinger sent to Congress in a letter (pdf) Tuesday urging Congress to support President Obama’s request for $58.5 billion worth of funding for State Department and foreign operations in fiscal 2011.
