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.
It is important to note that this funding is not subject to discretionary spending caps for FY20 because Congress designated it as “emergency” resource needs...
Against a backdrop of growing global crises and less than two months after Congress voted to once again increase funding for the International Affairs Budget, the Administration’s FY21 budget request released today calls for deep cuts to America’s development and diplomacy tools. This marks a four-year trend of targeting the State Department, USAID, and other development agencies for severe and disproportionate cuts despite bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill.
In a swift conclusion to months of tense negotiations between the White House and Congressional leaders – and just in time for the holidays – this week Congress approved two compromise spending packages for FY20 that will keep the government...
With lawmakers poised to leave town for the Thanksgiving recess, this week Congress approved a second short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government open for another month as negotiations to finalize FY20 spending continue. The...
The topline funding levels for the FY20 International Affairs Budget provided by the House and Senate not only reject the Administration’s proposed deep cuts but also increase resources for these programs compared to the FY19 enacted level. The...
This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released its FY20 State-Foreign Operations (SFOPS) bill – bypassing the traditional committee markup process in a failed attempt to bring the bill straight to the Senate floor. As previously mentioned, the Senate SFOPS bill is funded at $55 billion, including $47 billion in base and $8 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO).
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