Monthly Archives: April 2011
This contribution is cross-posted with The Stimson Center’s Will and the Wallet blog. The president’s announced his new Global Health Initiative (GHI) nearly two years ago and ever since the public health community has been waiting for details on how the administration was going to weave together the US’ portfolio of disease specific interventions in [...]
All eyes are on the Hill, where budget negotiators are furiously working towards a last minute deal before the deadline for government shutdown at midnight. Yesterday, House Republicans passed a temporary Continuing Resolution (CR) to buy more time for negotiations, but the President has said he would veto it, blocking the path forward for this [...]
In today’s London Telegraph, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia takes on critics of international development and diplomacy programs. Headlined “Foreign Aid Is Not a Waste of Money,” she writes “I have seen, at first–hand, how aid, effectively targeted and delivered, reduces poverty.” President Sirleaf calls on wealthy nations to confront the linked challenges of [...]
Former Congressman and Ambassador Mark Green and I recently traveled to Fargo, North Dakota where we attended the “Global Business Connections” conference, which brought together business leaders, academics and political figures to discuss trade and exports in the state. The North Dakota Trade Office invited Amb. Green to speak on a panel discussing ‘The Future [...]
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s FY12 budget resolution passed the House Budget Committee late yesterday on a party-line 22-16 vote. More than 20 Democratic amendments were rejected. The budget resolution would fund the International Affairs Budget at $41 billion, a 27% cut from FY10 levels. The budget resolution will move to the House floor [...]
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his FY12 budget resolution yesterday that proposes to reduce spending by $6 trillion over the next decade by reforming Medicare and cutting discretionary spending. Ryan’s budget resolution reduces the International Affairs Budget to $41 billion, a 27% cut from FY10 levels. The USGLC released a strong statement [...]
1. House FY12 Budget Committee Mark Cuts International Affairs Budget by 27%
2. FY11 Funding Remains Uncertain: House GOP Proposes Additional Cuts, Including $830 million to International Affairs Budget
Disproportionate Cut Ignores Call from Top Military and Business Leaders Washington, DC —The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) expressed great concern with the dangerous and disproportionate cuts to the International Affairs Budget in the House Budget Committee’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget resolution released today. Chairman Ryan’s $41 billion proposal for the International Affairs Budget represents [...]
Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his FY 2012 budget proposal this morning, which includes very deep cuts to the International Affairs Budget. The details are still being analyzed, but it looks like a 40% cut from the President’s FY12 request and a 34% cut from current levels. Look for more analysis on this from [...]
With the current Continuing Resolution for FY 2011 set to expire this Friday, April 8, budget negotiations continue to dominate the agenda on Capitol Hill and the threat of a government shutdown continues to grow. House and Senate negotiators and the White House have yet to reach a solid agreement on the level of discretionary [...]
