This time last year, Biden signed an act that allocated $4 TRILLION to "refugee and migration needs; salaries and expenses of personnel and dependents." WOW. That's ONE APPROPRIATION among how many?
MARCH 2024$4 TRILLION ALLOCATED
==(to meet refugee and migration needs; salaries and
expenses of personnel and dependents)==
Department of State
Migration and Refugee Assistance
Fornecessary expenses not otherwise provided for, to enable the
Secretary of State to carry out the provisions of section 2(a) and (b)
of theMigration and Refugee Assistance Actof 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601),
andother activities to meet ==refugee and migration needs; salaries and
expenses of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign
Service Act of 1980== (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.); allowances as authorized
by sections 5921 through 5925 of title 5, United States Code;purchase
andhire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code,$3,928,000,000, to remain
available until expended, of which $750,000,000 is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this heading,
$5,000,000 shall be made available for refugees resettling in Israel.
United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund
For ==necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 2(c)
of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c))==,
$100,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
amounts <<NOTE: Transfer authority.>in excess of the limitation
contained in paragraph (2) of such section shall be transferred to, and
merged with, funds
[[Page 138 STAT. 745]]
made available by this Act under the heading ``Migration and Refugee
Assistance''.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882/text