Obama administration cuts BIA budget request by 4.5 percent
Monday, February 14, 2011
Filed Under:
Politics
The
Interior Department has posted detailed documents for its
fiscal year 2012 budget request.
The
Bureau of Indian Affairs request is $2.5 billion. That's $118.9 million, or 4.5 percent, below current levels.
Major cuts are coming in construction ($120 million reduction), road maintenance ($26 million reduction) and post secondary programs ($66.4 million reduction) and in community and economic development ($10 million reduction).
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is discussing the budget on a conference call this afternoon.
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