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    Obama's Spending Freeze to Spare Foreign Affairs Budget, Says Official

    By Ma. Rizza Leonzon // 31 January 2011
    President Barack Obama is briefed on the events in Egypt during a meeting with his national security team in the White House on Jan. 29. His proposed five-year spending freeze exempts the U.S. foreign affairs budget, according to an official of the U.S. National Security Council. Photo by: Pete Souza / The White House

    A proposed five-year spending freeze announced by U.S. President Barack Obama in his Jan. 25 State of the Union address will likely exclude the country’s foreign affairs budget, according to a U.S. official.

    The proposed freeze on nonsecurity, discretionary spending “is the guidance for all departments, and so our budgets going forward will reflect that we clearly are very keen to preserve our foreign affairs funding in order to be best able to advance U.S. interests,” U.S. National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said in a Jan. 27 press briefing.

    “And that’s really what the U.S. taxpayer dollars are meant for and that’s what – whether it’s the State Department or USAID or other government agencies like the Department of Defense do in executing their mission, and that is putting the dollars to good work to advance American interests around the world,” he added.

    In 2010, Obama proposed a three-year discretionary spending freeze, which exempts defense and homeland security programs as well as those managed by the State and Veterans Affairs departments.

    >> Obama’s Spending Freeze Draws Disapproval from Aid Workers

    Meantime, Hammer also said the U.S. government will support reforms at the United Nations Security Council, adding that “in some ways, the UN no longer reflects some of the realities of today.”

    Hammer acknowledged that these reforms will take “considerable” effort and time.  

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