Budget constraints limit foreign affairs funding in Biden proposal
*This article originally appeared in DevEx Pro.
The proposal amounts to about a 1% increase from 2023 spending, but with the U.S. Congress facing a trio of budget decisions it’s something of a “house of mirrors.
President Joe Biden’s 2025 budget proposal, introduced on Monday even as Congress still struggles to approve 2024 funding, includes a marginal 1% increase from last year’s spending.
Losing the funding, whether from bilateral or multilateral programs, means less money going to global health. Instead of the major cuts, the administration had an “opportunity to redirect some of that money towards bilateral programs,” said Katie Coester, associate director of public policy and advocacy at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, adding that “the need is there clearly.”
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