Monthly Archives: April 2011
As Washington moves toward completing work on FY11 spending to focus on next year, the House’s FY12 budget resolution, which includes deep cuts to the International Affairs Budget, heads to the floor tomorrow. Democrats released their alternative budget resolution today, which fully funds the President’s request for the International Affairs Budget – $53 billion for [...]
1. Agreement Reached on FY11 Spending; International Affairs Budget Cut 11.4%
2. House to Debate FY12 Budget Resolution this Week
3. Related Hearings on the International Affairs Budget This Week
4. Snapshot: International Affairs Budget
An eleventh hour compromise prevented a government shutdown late Friday night, with White House and congressional negotiators reaching agreement on a spending plan for the remainder of FY11. Details of the FY11 spending agreement (H.R. 1473) came out late last night with the International Affairs Budget mark at $50.1 billion, which is $6.5 billion (-11.4%) [...]
Details of the FY 2011 spending agreement came out late last night with the International Affairs Budget mark at $50.1 billion. This is an 11 percent cut from FY 2010 levels, but not the 19 percent cut previously adopted by the House in H.R. 1. The House and Senate are expected to take up the [...]
Rejects Dangerous Cuts, but Still Raises Serious Concerns Washington, DC —The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) released the following statement from Executive Director Liz Schrayer on the final FY 2011 International Affairs Budget agreement: “The USGLC recognizes, like all Americans, it’s critical to deal with the budget deficit and all programs need to tighten [...]
A new “national strategic narrative” written by two actively serving military officers* calls for the United States to reorient its national priorities and investments for the 21st century and move from a Cold War posture of “containment” to one of “sustainability.” Linking America’s security and prosperity to engagement with the world, the authors tie “smart [...]
Senate and House negotiators and the White House agreed on a spending plan for the rest of FY11 late Friday, hours before a government shutdown would have begun. The deal reached by House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would cut a total of $38.5 billion relative to current spending levels, higher [...]
With uncertainty surrounding the short-term implications of a government shutdown, it is easy to forget the larger conversation we need to have on the potential long-term impacts of the drastic cuts currently under consideration in the House 2012 budget proposal. Testifying before Congress this week, USAID Administrator Raj Shah caught the attention of many when he stressed [...]
In the midst of the noisy budget debates last week, President Obama appointed a new Special Envoy to Sudan, Ambassador Princeton Lyman. With budget proposals in Congress containing deep and disproportionate cuts to the International Affairs Budget, Ambassador Lyman’s appointment highlights the need for the State Department and USAID to have the capacity to address [...]
