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Really amazing! Great job, Rick & Team.

Best,
Carl

> On May 5, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Erin Cochran <ECochran@wfpusa.org> wrote:
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> Dear Members of the Board,
> As many of you have surely read, President Trump today signed the $1 trillion spending agreement to fund the government through September. Below is a summary of what this means for global hunger and the World Food Programme. We just released this statement <https://wfpusa.org/news-releases/statement-from-wfp-usas-rick-leach-on-the-consolidated-appropriations-act-2017/>.
> A Title II Food for Peace allocation of $1.6 billion, a one-time increase of $134 million over the base level of $1.466 billion
> An International Disaster Assistance (IDA) allocation of $2.822 billion, an increase in funding of almost $25 million over FY16 (traditionally, about 30% of this is allocated to the Emergency Food Security Program within IDA).
> The really big news: Supplemental IDA funds of $990 million for famine relief ($300 million of which will be transferred to Title II for commodity food aid).
> A McGovern-Dole School Feeding allocation of $201.626 million, $5 million of which is available for Local and Regional Purchase associated with McGovern-Dole, both level funding from FY16.
> Additionally, today we ghostwrote and placed an oped for Peter McPherson <http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/05/04/farming-innovations-michigan/101264474/> (former USAID Administrator under Reagan) in the Detroit Free Press. Michigan is hosting the next Farm Bill hearing tomorrow so it’s rather timely.
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> Thanks, as always, for your support,
> Erin
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> Erin Cochran
> Vice President, Communications
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