The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Budget Request for the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is $42.8 billion for foreign assistance, which is $411.5 million (1 percent) above the FY 2023 Estimate. This total includes $28.3 billion in foreign assistance for USAID fully and partially managed accounts.

The Request builds on the Administration’s supplemental request and maintains support for longstanding Administration priorities, including ensuring Russia’s strategic failure in the war in Ukraine and expanding the reach of our diplomacy and foreign assistance, especially in the Indo-Pacific region. The Request also supports continued investments to address the world’s most pressing issues – the climate crisis, food insecurity, threats to democracy, global health security, and the need to increase the adoption of open and secure digital technologies globally. It also responds to humanitarian crises worldwide, includes funding to address the challenge of irregular migration, and spurs economic growth and combats the PRC’s coercive lending through the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment.  

USAID PRIORITIES IN THE FY 2025 BUDGET REQUEST

SUSTAIN U.S. LEADERSHIP IN HUMANITARIAN AND STABILIZATION ASSISTANCE

• The President’s Budget Request includes $10.3 billion in humanitarian assistance, which includes $6.3 billion in USAID fully and partially managed accounts. This builds on the Administration’s supplemental request to empower USAID to respond to an average of 75 crises each year, including ongoing emergencies in Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti, and the Middle East, new and emerging crises, and natural disasters.

• This funding will help the U.S. retain its leadership role in responding to and mitigating extraordinary levels of humanitarian need, and continue its significant strides to harmonize development and humanitarian interventions.

SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST

• The President’s Budget Request includes $7.6 billion for the Middle East. Of this total, $2 billion is for USAID fully and partially managed accounts. 

• The request supports the Administration’s efforts to advance a stable and prosperous Middle East and North Africa, strengthen U.S. partners in the region, including maintaining robust support for Jordan, and mitigates the impacts of the Israel-Hamas conflict. 

BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH & RESILIENCE THROUGH PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT

• To identify opportunities to accelerate growth through partnerships and innovation and support the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGI), the President’s Budget Request includes $2.2 billion in USAID fully and partially managed accounts for core Economic Growth programs. This total excludes food security, energy, environment, and climate programming.

• This includes $50 million for the Enterprises for Development, Growth, and Empowerment (EDGE) Fund, level with the FY 2023 Estimate. This innovative fund is designed to quickly get matching funding to our Missions to unlock private sector funds  and unleash outsized impacts on global development challenges and support PGI.

BUILD AND EXPAND DIGITAL AND CYBER PROGRAMS

• The President’s Budget Request includes $500 million to further American leadership to ensure an open and secure technological ecosystem, including $90.9 million in direct funding for USAID, a five-fold increase above the FY 2023 Estimate for USAID. This funding will support Digital Development programming that builds on USAID’s existing foundational work to meet the urgency and magnitude of the national security and development challenges in the digital age.

• The request will advance a whole-of-agency approach to build open, inclusive and secure digital ecosystems in partner countries and leverage digital tools to secure U.S. competitiveness and development results in the digital age.

ADDRESS FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGES

• The Request includes $1.2 billion for global food security to help build resilient food systems and is the U.S. government response to the ongoing protracted global food security crisis. USAID will manage $1.1 billion of this funding, and the total also includes $100 million for the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) to support the ongoing long-term climate resilient seed development and improved soil health.

• Food security is a critical component of the Administration’s ability to reduce global poverty. This Request prioritizes funding for the 20 Feed the Future (FTF) target countries and resilience focus countries. Resource allocation will continue to target systems-level changes to improve food security, reduce poverty and malnutrition, and promote more resilient and sustainable agricultural productivity.

ACCELERATE CLIMATE ACTION

• The President’s Budget Request includes $3 billion in discretionary funding across the State Department and USAID, of which $2.8 billion is for USAID- managed accounts, in order to address critical threats such as lack of access to energy, forest loss, sea level rise, and increasingly frequent and intense periods of heat, drought, floods, and storms.

• Climate funding strengthens and advances U.S. national security and economic interests by expanding the clean energy economy, conserving forests, increasing resilience to climate-related disasters, and helping to prevent global temperatures from rising to levels that would create dangerous impacts around the world – including in regions already prone to conflict and insecurity.

CHAMPION GLOBAL HEALTH AND GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY

• To sustain the leadership role of the United States to advance global health, the Budget Request includes $9.8 billion, of which $4 billion is for USAID-managed accounts, to combat infectious diseases, prevent child and maternal deaths, bolster nutrition, control the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and build the capacity of partner countries to prevent, detect, and respond to future infectious disease outbreaks to prevent them from becoming national or global emergencies.

• The Request also includes $20 million in dedicated funds for the Administration’s Global Health Worker Initiative to enhance global efforts to better train, equip, and protect the health workforce, which would strengthen countries’ abilities to provide primary health services and respond to crises; and $30 million in new funding for the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents, a contribution anticipated to leverage at least $210 million to strengthen health systems globally.

ENSURE RUSSIA’S STRATEGIC FAILURE IN UKRAINE

• We must ensure Putin’s war against Ukraine remains a strategic failure while supporting the Ukrainian government and people. The request includes $482 million for Ukraine, of which, $321 million is for USAID fully or partially managed accounts to help respond to the increased economic, development, and security needs, including bolstering energy infrastructure in the wake of systematic targeting by Russia, improving cyber security, growing the agricultural sector to generate exports, and supporting civil society including activists, journalists, and independent media.

INVEST IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION

• The request includes $2.1 billion in foreign assistance across the State Department and USAID in discretionary funding to accelerate implementation of an affirmative vision for the Indo-Pacific region, which is defined by U.S. values, and advances a free and open, connected, prosperous, secure, and resilient region. 

• Additionally, the request includes $2 billion in mandatory funding over five years for the State Department and USAID to support our economic strategy in the region, which includes making Indo-Pacific economies more connected and resilient, and will support our partners in pushing back against predatory PRC expansion.

SUPPORT OUTCOMPETING THE PRC

• The request includes $400 million for the Countering the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Influence Fund to address specific, problematic PRC behaviors, as well as increase the capacity and resilience of U.S. partners and allies worldwide to deter PRC aggression and coercion. Funds in the request are allocated both bilaterally and centrally.

CATALYZE PARTNERSHIPS FOR GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE

• The FY 2025 request includes $4.1 billion for programming aligned with the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment across the globe to advance strategic infrastructure in priority sectors, including climate and energy security, health and health security, digital connectivity, gender equity, transportation, and agriculture. 

• Additionally, the FY 2025 request includes $250 million for the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment Fund to allow the U.S. to respond to time-sensitive needs necessary to advance strategic infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries, remove transaction-level barriers, and build like-minded partner consortiums to compete for infrastructure deals and mobilize financing. 

• To expand markets and opportunities for U.S. businesses, the Budget requests $2 billion in mandatory funding over five years for an International Infrastructure Fund (IIF). This fund will also provide credible, reliable alternatives to the PRC’s “hard” infrastructure options. 

ADDRESS IRREGULAR MIGRATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE  

• To ensure critical migration management throughout the Western Hemisphere can be sustained and expanded, the request includes $224.9 million in targeted funding, 84 percent above the FY 2023 Estimate, including an additional $35 million for USAID to bolster integration programming across South America. This includes a total of $211.9 million for USAID fully and partially managed accounts, $120.5 million (132 percent) above the FY 2023 Estimate of $91.4 million.

• The Request sustains support for Central America in the final year of the Root Causes Strategy (RCS) by providing $658.6 million in bilateral assistance, robustly resourcing the five pillars of the RCS and the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to provide $4 billion over four years. This funding, combined with additional centrally managed funding expected to directly benefit Central American countries, brings the estimated regional total in the President’s Budget Request to more than $1 billion.

REVITALIZE THE USAID WORKFORCE 

• USAID must invest in our people to continue advancing key foreign policy and national security priorities. As development needs remain high, USAID will continue to invest in and improve its workforce and operations. To that end, the Request includes $2.2 billion for USAID to build a responsive and resilient workforce.

For more information on the President’s FY 2025 Budget, please visit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/. 

For more information on the USAID FY 2025 Budget, please visit: https://www.usaid.gov/cj. 

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