Budget

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Cutting Aid is Still A Big Deal: Why We Should Pay Attention to the FY21 Budget Request

February 18, 2020
President Trump sent his fourth budget request to Congress last week—once again including steep cuts to foreign aid spending. We dug in to explore it.
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Justifying Government Budget Decisions: Toward Standards for Public Reasons

January 21, 2020
Government decisions affect people’s lives and should be reasonable, not arbitrary. This core liberal principle applies to all major policy decisions, including budget choices. Modern conceptions of democracy, and democratic accountability, also require that government decisions be justified i...
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Amid Partisan Rancor, Congress Reaches Bipartisan Agreement on Foreign Aid Spending

December 20, 2019
In a flurry of activity, Congress completed its work on Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 spending bills just ahead of the holiday break. For the third year running, lawmakers rejected the steep cuts to foreign assistance proposed by the Trump administration, providing a modest increase in funding for developme...
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Should the EU Provide Policy-based Lending?

September 26, 2019
As the EU considers providing policy-based lending, Mikaela Gavas and Hannah Timmis outline what this support might look like, and discuss what the value-add of the EU Commission would be.