Within this total, the discretionary request includes $58.4 billion for the State Department and USAID, an increase of $5.4 billion or 10%, according to a new media note sent by the State Department
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New: Biden admin submits Fiscal Year 2022 budget request to Congress, calling for $63.5 billion in international programs funding. This request is an increase of $6.8 billion, or 12%, from levels enacted in 2021
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Among other things, budget proposal calls for fully funding UN peacekeeping to reverse "chronic underfunding of these critical programs by the previous administration" according to the budgetary request.
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The request calls for about $500 mil more (total of nearly $2 bil) for UN peacekeeping, including $300 mil to begin "paying down cap-related UN peacekeeping arrears accumulated in the past 4 years with the intention of fully funding peacekeeping arrears payments within 2 years"
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Admin highlighted a few key priorities in its State Department / USAID funding requests: preventing future pandemics; climate change; Central America; humanitarian assistance & refugees; countering authoritariansim; Middle East peace https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FY2022-Discretionary-Request.pdf …
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