InterAction released a press statement today saying that the Obama administration’s FY2013 budget request is a mixed bag for the world’s poor, with continued investment in international assistance overall but targeted cuts in areas such as global health and humanitarian assistance.
“Foreign assistance already amounts to less than 1 percent of the federal budget. We understand that this is a difficult fiscal climate, but any further trimming of these core accounts is counter-productive and impedes our efforts to build more self-sufficient populations,” said Samuel A. Worthington, president and CEO of InterAction.
For more information, see InterAction’s full press release, and InterAction’s table that offers line-by-line details on how InterAction is crunching the 2013 International Affairs Budget numbers.
Photo by Alain Mukeba. A woman in the DRC administers a polio vaccine for a project partly funded by USAID.
