FY2020 budget proposal
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After making one amendment, the Fono Joint Budget Committee yesterday passed the final fiscal year 2020 budget, without inflating the initial total budget submission of $421.48 million. Both the Senate and House now go through the final process of approving the budget...
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Administration has proposed $611 million for fiscal year 2020 through the Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) for the the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands....

![Senate President Gaoteote Tofau Palaie said the priority is to move the FY 2020 budget forward and enact it into law, and other issues can be revisited at a later time. [SN file photo] Senate President Gaoteote Tofau Palaie](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/senate_pres_0654_copy_2.jpg?itok=RHxjsWWy)
![Doug Domenech, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular and International Affairs with Director Nikolao Pula. [SN file photo] Doug Domenech, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular and International Affairs with Director Nikolao Pula.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/domenech_and_pula_in_guamweb_0.jpg?itok=pF_Ubs8G)