Four weeks after the release of its “skinny” budget, the Administration released a more detailed description of its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget proposal on Friday, May 30th – reaffirming its intent to cut America’s diplomatic and international affairs agencies and programs by a deep and draconian 85% when rescissions are included.
Ahead of a midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown, on Friday Congress approved a full-year Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through September 30, 2025 – the remainder of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The funding measure...
From rising global instability to a fraught domestic political and budgetary environment, this year’s federal budget process is occurring against a backdrop of complex challenges both at home and abroad...
Ahead of Congress’s August recess, the Senate Appropriations Committee spent the month of July considering its FY25 spending bills – including the State-Foreign Operations (SFOPS) bill that funds the vast majority of the International Affairs...
In terms of resources to support international peace and security, the final spending deal approved by Congress includes increases in some security-oriented accounts, but reductions in others...
The package appeared to be in jeopardy last week due to overwhelming Republican opposition to a bipartisan border security deal that had been attached to the supplemental. However, a path forward emerged after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer...