Cancels approved funds for foreign aid, international groups and public broadcasting

§1What it does

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This law cancels certain funds that Congress had already approved but that had not yet been committed, for the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), several independent agencies and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds public radio and television.^2,3 The President proposed these cancellations under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which lets a President propose canceling funds but requires Congress to pass a law for the cancellation to take effect.³ The canceled money includes funds for international organizations and peacekeeping, global health, refugee assistance, development and disaster aid, democracy programs, USAID's operating costs, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. African Development Foundation.³ The House first passed a version canceling $9.4 billion; the Senate then exempted some programs, including global health funds for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, nutrition and maternal and child health, and the House accepted that final version.³

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§3How Congress voted

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