Obama’s FY 2016 budget requests $643.6M for US territories and Freely Associated States

WASHINGTON, D.C. (U.S. Department of the Interior) — President Obama has proposed a fiscal year 2016 budget of $643.6 million for the Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs, which works to empower U.S.-affiliated insular communities by encouraging economic activity, building governmental capacity, promoting effective governance, and supporting adaptation to the impacts of climate change.

The budget request includes $103 million in annual appropriations and $540.6 million in permanent and indefinite appropriations mandated by law to the U.S. territories and the Freely Associated States.

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Source: Marianas Variety