Fix This Budget
We need your help. As we’ve mentioned before, less than 1.5% of the total U.S. Budget goes to International Affairs. Yet short-sighted Budget Committee leaders are singling out this 1.5% for deep cuts, threatening programs critical to the health and survival of millions around the world.
Fortunately, there’s still time to fix this budget. Tell your senators these cuts are unacceptable. Our message to the Senate is simple:
Please fix this budget by signing the bipartisan appropriations letter, sponsored by Senators Kerry and Lugar, that supports full funding for the State-Foreign Operations bill.
This funding is a drop in the bucket in terms of the overall U.S. Budget, about 1.5%. But its impact on the world is huge. It covers all ONE priorities such as debt relief for countries including Haiti; life-saving treatment and prevention measures for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; and programs empowering women, promoting agricultural development, and enrolling millions of children in school.
Please add your voice here.
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May 12, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Thanks ONE for this action alert. I have the feeling that this one will be the first of many action alerts that we will be responding to from ONE.
In our quest to be diplomatic with the powers that be in DC, let us never forget that what we do (or don’t do) AS ONE will have its positive or negative reverberations amongst the world’s poorest people.
Take good care.
AS ONE, debbie
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