Budget: Funds and Refugee

budget: If approved by Congress, the 2018 budget blueprint would lower overall refugee funding to 2.7 billion from 3.1 billion a 13 per cent drop, according to Metro News. That includes U.S. contributions to international aid groups helping refugees in other countries. The latest effort comes through Trump's federal budget proposal, which calls for a 25 per cent cut in funds for resettling refugees on American soil. But the funds specifically earmarked for U.S. refugee admissions would face a steeper reduction, to 410 million from 544.7 million as recently as 2016. The budget request also eliminates the separate emergency refugee and migration funds that Congress allocated 50 million to in the 2017 appropriations bill. Figures for the current fiscal year, which ends in September, aren't available yet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.