President Obama released his first national security strategy last week, as we anticipated. He argues Americans’ well-being is bound more than ever to events beyond U.S. borders and that U.S.
On September 3, Secretary Rice announced a $1 billion economic and humanitarian support program for Georgia. Included in that program is a $100 million top-up to the existing MCC $295 million compact with Georgia . The top-up will be funded through existing MCC FY08 funds that would likely have been used to fund a couple of threshold programs. On September 17, the MCC Board will be asked to approve this action.