President Trump’s new budget plan would cut one quarter of the main U.S. diplomatic budget in fiscal year 2019, as part of a plan to offset increases in defense and infrastructure spending.
The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development would receive a combined $39.3 billion in fiscal year 2019 under the White House proposal. That money derives mostly from two accounts: $25.8 billion comes in the form base funding, which is the standard diplomatic appropriation. That amount represents a “26-percent decrease from the 2017 enacted level,” the White House noted.
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