
House appropriators have proposed including $500 million in Foreign Military Financing funds for Taiwan in the draft of the next State Department and foreign operations spending bill, an increase of $400 million over the president’s budget request. The House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations and Related Program Subcommittee will mark up its FY ‘25 spending bill on Tuesday, which also includes $2.1 billion aimed at countering China and funding “United States national security interests in the Indo-Pacific and to count…