Hillary's FY2011 Budget for the Department of State

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FY2011 Budget for the Department of State

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Statement Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and

Related Programs
Washington, DC
February 25, 2010

The budget we are presenting today is designed to protect America and Americans and to advance our interests. Our fiscal year 2011 request for the State Department and USAID totals $52.8 billion. That is a $4.9 billion increase over 2010. Of that increase, $3.6 billion will go to supporting efforts in “frontline states” – Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. Other funding will grow by $1.3 billion, or a 2.7 percent increase, that will help us address global challenges, strengthen essential partnerships, and ensure that the State Department and USAID are equipped with the right people and resources to meet the challenges of our time.

The first of these is in health. Building on our progress treating HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, our Global Health Initiative will invest $63 billion over six years, starting with $8.5 billion in FY11, to help our partners address specific diseases and to build strong, sustainable health systems for themselves.

How sustainable is Medicare and Medicaid?

Who are our 'partners'?

On climate change, our request for $646 million seeks to promote the United States as a leader in green technology and to leverage other countries’ cooperation – including through the Copenhagen Accord, which for the first time brought together developed and developing countries. And this is part of the Administration’s total request of $1.4 billion to support core climate-change activities in developing nations.

Promoting a scandal?  Fraud data?

The US is broke.

more here - http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/02/137299.htm