The snow keeps falling, but the winter vacation from budget negotiations is over in Washington D.C. U.S. President Barack Obama signaled the start of another appropriations season for fiscal year 2017 with the release of the final budget request of his administration on Tuesday.
At the highest level, the budget request for international affairs looks pretty familiar and effectively flat, coming in at $54.1 billion overall. Of that amount, $22.7 billion sits in accounts fully or partially managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The top-line number includes $39.3 billion in base funding and $14.9 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations funding — a special account associated with the global war on terror.