2025 Budget bill
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The final review of the FY 2025 budget by the Joint Budget & Appropriations Committee of the Fono was postponed yet again yesterday to this morning by Fono leaders.
This was after the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee met on Wednesday and agreed to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The FY2025 budget review was postponed yesterday morning when Fono members could not reach a consensus on the credibility of the proposed budget's overall projected amount of $733,683,167, submitted by the Budget Office and Treasury.
The joint hearing was held at the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fiscal Year 2025 Budget bill totaling $733,683,167 million was introduced in the Senate yesterday as the Fono reconvened in both chambers — Senate and House — after the four-week break it took from its 4th regular session of the 38th Legislature.
Local Revenues total...


![Government Treasurer Malemo Tausaga and Budget Director Catherine Saelua testifying at the Fono's joint hearing for the proposed FY 2025 budget yesterday morning. The Senate does not believe the Administration’s projections for Local Revenues, one of the sources of the total proposed FY2025 Budget and wants the amount amended. The hearing continues today. [photo: Asi A. Fa'asau] Government Treasurer Malemo Tausaga and Budget Director Catherine Saelua](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_9554.jpg?itok=DPpQNSMh)
