Global Poverty Budget & Appropriations

According to press reports, the White House is preparing to exploit a budget trick that would cancel funding for the fight against global poverty. This roundabout move would jeopardize $2-4 billion in aid that Congress has already approved and has been signed into law.

The White House has once again jeopardized the futures of families struggling to put food on the table, kids around the world seeking an education, and millions more people facing poverty. The administration’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request proposes massive funding cuts to effective anti-poverty programs in the U.S. and around the world. Now the process and final decisions fall to Congress, where there is stiff opposition to much of this budget and where similar proposals failed last year.

With its first federal budget proposal, the White House has taken aim at families struggling to put food on the table, kids around the world seeking an education, and millions more people facing poverty. Proposing massive funding cuts to effective anti-poverty programs, the budget jeopardizes the futures of people across the country and around the world. Now Congress takes up the process.

By proposing draconian cuts to funding for global development programs through the State Department and USAID, this proposal threatens the futures of millions of people living in poverty all around the world.

Guest Speaker: Maurine Murenga, Global Fund Advocates Network

March 2019 Webinar Recording

March 2019 Webinar Slides (PDF)

March 2019 Webinar Slides (PPT)

Ask your senators to request funding for global health and education programs.

Guest Speaker: Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

February 2019 Webinar Recording

February 2019 Global Poverty Slides (PDF)

February 2019 Global Poverty Slides (PPT)

Every year, Congress decides how to spend the money in the U.S. federal budget. RESULTS urges our lawmakers to support issues that build the foundation to end poverty – health, education, and economic opportunity. These are memos you can use to make FY20 requests of your members of Congress.

FY-19 Sign-on letters