{"id":60485,"date":"2018-02-12T22:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=60485"},"modified":"2018-02-12T22:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:03:24","slug":"president-trump-proposes-608-million-in-2019-budget-for-u-s-territories-and-freely-associated-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=60485","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Proposes $608 Million In 2019 Budget For U.S. Territories And Freely Associated States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">President Donald Trump today proposed $608 million for fiscal year 2019 through the Office of Insular Affairs (O.I.A.) for the benefit Americans in the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as well as the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, O.I.A. announced.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">The O.I.A. budget request includes $84.1 million in discretionary appropriations and $523.9 million in mandatory funding.\u00a0 Additionally, the budget requests $111 million of discretionary Department of Defense appropriations to be transferred to the Department of the Interior to support enactment of the 2010 Compact Review Agreement with Palau, according to the release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">These funds are provided to assist the government of Palau in its efforts to advance the well-being of its people and in recognition of the special relationship that exists between the United States and Palau, its importance as an ally and a key part of the Nation\u2019s Asia-Pacific national security strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u201cThe 2019 budget request prioritizes the department\u2019s mission of restoring trust and fulfilling insular responsibilities,\u201d said Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Doug Domenech. \u201cWe are balancing O.I.A. efforts to strengthen economic and health capacities in the U.S. territories and fulfilling U.S. obligations under the Compacts of Free Association to the freely associated states.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump today proposed $608 million for fiscal year 2019 through the Office of Insular Affairs (O.I.A.) for the benefit Americans in the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as well as the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[147],"tags":[2858,6365,3824,68],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Trump Proposes $608 Million In 2019 Budget For U.S. Territories And Freely Associated States - V.I. 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