The relevant congressional committees now have until February 16th to draft their components of the COVID-19 relief package – including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee responsible for outlining how...
After weeks of intense negotiations and multiple last-minute Continuing Resolutions (CR), Congress passed an end of year spending package containing a $1.4 trillion omnibus to fund all 12 FY21 spending bills, as well as a $900 billion COVID-relief...
With two days to go before a shutdown, Congress approved a Continuing Resolution (CR) to extend current funding levels and keep the government open until December 18th. The current CR expires on December 11th at midnight. The stop-gap measure (H.R...
The Administration has consistently proposed deep cuts to the International Affairs Budget and Congress has rejected those cuts each year, this year included. In fact, both the House and the Senate’s topline funding levels for the FY21...
This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released all 12 of its FY21 appropriations bills including the FY21 State-Foreign Operations (SFOPS) bill. This approach bypassed the traditional committee markup process as Congress races to finish...
The CR extends FY20 funding levels through December 11 – punting negotiations on FY21 spending bills to the lame duck session of Congress. While the House approved ten of its twelve FY21 spending bills this summer, including the State-Foreign...
The House also passed its FY21 Defense Authorization bill this week, but not before adopting several bipartisan amendments to strengthen America’s international affairs programs – many based on bipartisan legislation introduced this Congress...
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee approved its FY21 State-Foreign Operations (SFOPS) bill on a party-line vote (29-21) following approval at the subcommittee level earlier this week. As previously mentioned, the bill is funded at $65.9 billion, including $55.9 billion in non-emergency discretionary funding plus an additional $10 billion in emergency funding for the COVID-19 response.
Adding in funding for international food aid and international programs from the Agriculture and Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bills, non-emergency funding provided by House Appropriators for the FY21 International Affairs Budget totals $57.8 billion – a 2.2% ($1.2 billion) increase compared to the FY20 enacted level.
While the overall total reflects a 15% ($8.5 billion) increase compared to the FY20 enacted level and is nearly 50% ($21.9 billion) above the Administration’s FY21 budget request, when emergency COVID-19 funding is excluded the increase is a more...
Capping off days of intense negotiations between Congress and the Administration, this week a deal was reached on a third tranche of FY20 emergency supplemental funding to respond to the evolving COVID-19 crisis.
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