Funding for over 20 international organizations would be eliminated.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a nearly 50 percent cut to the State Department’s annual budget last week. An initial draft seeks to eliminate funding for the majority of international organizations, including NATO headquarters and agencies linked to the United Nations. The plan would end all international peacekeeping funding and cut more than half of global public health funding, with exceptions for malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis.
The proposal has been submitted to the State Department and will go through several rounds of reviews before being sent to Congress for final approval.
State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce said, “Throughout the history of the United States, everyone has a budget plan and everyone has ideas for budgets. And every president has a budget plan and sends it to Congress. And then Congress either accepts it or they have their own ideas, which happens more often than not.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Director Russ Vought as he heads the Office of Management and Budget.
- For Secretary of State Rubio and department officials as they assess the budgetary needs of the department.
- For wisdom for the president and his advisors as they seek to eliminate wasteful government spending.
Sources: MSN, Fox News, AP News, NY Post
