Trump admin wants to slash funding for diplomacy and foreign aid.

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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is proposing sharp cuts to the budget for international diplomacy and aid in its 2019 funding request to Congress -- though questions were raised when the White House and State Department appeared to ask for different amounts of funding with very little explanation.

In White House documents and a letter Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wrote to lawmakers, the administration requests $37.8 billion for fiscal year 2019 for the State Department and Agency for International Development, a cut of 32% from 2017 levels.

In a separate statement issued by the State Department in Tillerson's name, the request is for $39.3 billion, a 29% cut. A State Department official said the agency was submitting a late-breaking addendum to the budget "that includes an additional $1.5 billion dollars in the topline for a limited set of administration priorities."

The official was unable to explain the discrepancy with the White House figure, or what the limited set of priorities are.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/politics/trump-budget-state-department-aid-cut/index.html

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