House Appropriators Recommend $25 Million WASH Increase for FY 22
Final Action by Congress Likely This Fall
Washington, DC, June 28, 2021 – USAID is likely to get an additional $25 million for water, sanitation, and hygiene in Fiscal Year 2022 (October 2021 – September 2022), thanks to action this evening by a U. S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee to recommend an allocation of $475 million, up from the FY 21 level of $450 million.
If approved later this week by the full House Appropriations Committee, the recommendation will likely see action this summer by the full House, with the Senate to follow shortly. Final approval would come as part of an overall bill to fund USAID in the next fiscal year, with a probable topline increase to about $62.2 billion for what are collectively known as SFOps (the State Department, USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and related programs). The final topline number will of course depend on House-Senate agreement.
That would be a 12% ($6.7 billion) increase compared to the FY 21 level (except for the emergency funding for COVID response) and is 0.5% ($294 million) above the Biden Administration’s FY 22 request.
MWA and other advocates for international safe water, sanitation, and hygiene had asked the House and Senate to consider an increase to $540 million for FY 22, knowing that there would be strong pressure to keep the amount below half a billion. The Senate Appropriations Committee has received testimony from MWA and others in support of the highest request, and we will see this summer if Senators want to push the number any higher than the House action.
MWA thanks the members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs for its continued support for safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. In particular, we deeply thank the subcommittee staff, new Subcommittee Chair Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Subcommittee Ranking Minority Member Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY), for their support.
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