The Trump administration is reviving its effort to secure billions of dollars in State Department funding in a wide-ranging account with few guardrails that was met with resistance from Democrats last year, who accused the administration of setting up a foreign policy slush fund.
This week, appropriators will give an initial response to that renewed effort when the House National Security-State Appropriations Subcommittee releases its draft of the State Department’s fiscal 2027 spending bill on Wednesday.
In the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, the opening salvo of the annual appropriations process in which the White House tells Congress how it would like to fund the government, the administration requested $5 billion for the America First Opportunity Fund.
