U.S. Trade and Development Agency

What this funds

The Department of State is unwavering in its commitment to an America First foreign policy that protects our sovereignty, strengthens our security, and advances the prosperity of the American people. Our Department supports this mission by curbing illegal immigration, securing our borders to protect American jobs and communities, safeguarding freedom of expression and privacy in digital spaces, and ensuring American economic power and prosperity remain a cornerstone of our national security. Our dedication to peace through strength reinforces America's ability to deter threats and enables the United States, under President Trump, to lead effectively on the global stage, ushering in a new era of American greatness. The FY 2027 budget request of $33.6 billion for the Department of State, including rescissions, will allow us to fulfill the Department's mission. This request directly aligns with the vision and goals of the Department's newly released Agency Strategic Plan for FY 2026-2030. In 2025, I approved the first comprehensive Department reorganization in decades. We consolidated offices with overlapping functions, eliminated unnecessary bureaucracy and streamlined our workforce, while simultaneously integrating functions previously performed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This Request strengthens the Department's post-reorganization structure and would allow the Department to take on selected international communications functions and advance our interests. Building on these reforms, the Department's Diplomatic Engagement funding request of $12.7 billion implements our America First foreign policy at home and abroad, safeguarding the Department's people, property, and data. A secure diplomatic platform is essential for protecting American interests worldwide. The Request includes historic investments in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security to enhance our global security In parallel with securing personnel and facilities, the Department continues its IT modernization by integrating program and other data formerly held by USAID, advancing enterprise-level artificial intelligence capabilities, and upgrading technology infrastructure and cybersecurity. These measures will improve program efficiency, The Request builds upon ongoing efforts to bring security to places like Syria, expand engagement in the Indo-Pacific region, and strengthen strategic partnerships in the Western Hemisphere, including with Economic security is integral to national security, and this budget request reinforces American economic dominance as a central component of foreign policy. By securing access to critical minerals and maritime mineral rights, strengthening American supply chains, developing competitive and commercial space programs, and stopping foreign actors' abuse of the global trading system, we will strengthen our technological edge and help reindustrialize the United States through diplomacy and foreign assistance. Since January 2025, the Department has overhauled its foreign assistance structure and programs to ensure that foreign assistance is used to advance U.S. national security and diplomatic objectives. The $20.9 billion included in this budget will ensure this continues in FY 2027. Nowhere has this new approach to foreign assistance been clearer than in global health and the bilateral health memoranda of understanding the Department has signed with partner governments to advance the America First Global Health Strategy. American foreign assistance is not charity, and these agreements will allow our partners to assume more responsibility for their own well-being while also ensuring our continued global leadership in this area. As of March 10, 2026, the Department has signed 24 arrangements with respect to anticipated recipient country co-investment. This Request will fund the America First Global Health Strategy, as well as continue support for the Global Fund to provide health commodities at scale. Similarly, the Department has embraced a new approach to humanitarian response, even as it has successfully responded to crises such as Hurricane Melissa's devastation in the Caribbean. It is clear, continued dysfunction and inefficiencies in the global humanitarian response architecture need to be addressed. Consolidated overseas humanitarian aid funding in the newly enacted International Humanitarian Assistance account, elimination of the inefficient Food for Peace Title II program, and the Department's landmark MOU with the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, are important steps in that direction. The budget request for the America First Opportunity Fund (A1OF) will allow the Department to sustain our enduring commitments to Jordan and to fund important strategic investments in critical minerals, infrastructure, transportation, telecommunications. Economic development and investment programs funded by the A1OF will drive private-sector led development, create economic opportunities for American companies and create jobs here at home, and enhance our bilateral relationships with key partners. The amount requested for this account reflects the importance of having flexible resources at the ready to protect U.S. security and prosperity, in our own hemisphere and in East Asia and the Pacific. Our national interests are similarly served by the robust security assistance this request includes, not only for longstanding partners such as Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and Taiwan, but also to disrupt and reduce illicit synthetic drug trafficking fueling transnational crime and terrorism -- especially in the Western Hemisphere -- and deepen security partnerships in East Asia and Pacific. Robust security assistance is also reflected in the Department's request for loan authority for $18 billion in continued and improved foreign military financing, which enables the United States to provide a continuum of modern financing options to seize historic opportunities while strengthening the defense industrial base; increasing American competitiveness vis-'-vis investments desperately needed today; and cooperating with partners to address emerging priorities. Thank you for your partnership and consideration as we work together to fulfill President Trump's America

Extracted from Foreign Operations, p. 95. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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