FY2021 budget
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has called a Special Session of the Fono to convene for up to 15 days, with the main agenda to revisit the fiscal year 2021 budget, which the governor has not signed but instead issued an executive order allowing the government to operate on FY...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With most of the federal coronavirus grant funding set to expire in the Fall of next year, Tualauta Rep. Larry Sanitoa believes this temporary federal monies should have been included by the Lolo Administration in the proposed budget of fiscal year 2021 - which begins...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government’s final fiscal year 2021 budget plan is 7% higher than it was in FY 2020 for the Executive Branch, and includes the new entry level threshold salary level for high school graduates and Associate of Arts degree holders, according to Office of...

![nstead of signing the drastically reduced Fono approved budget for FY 2021, which began at 12:01a.m. yesterday, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Molig issued an executive order to continue funding and operations of the American Samoa Government under fiscal year 2020 budget levels. [SN file photo] Sen. Fonoti Tafa’ifa Aufata (left), with Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, and other local leaders](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_lolo_speech_57.jpg?itok=Pfa8Sc4x)
![Rep. Larry Sanitoa says that CARES Act money is no different from federal grants which require Fono review. [SN file photo] Tualauta Rep. Larry Sanitoa.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/sanitoa_new_0937_0.jpg?itok=wSz2WtYq)
![Office of Program Planning and Budget director Catherine D. Saelua informed the cabinet that the FY2021 budget is complete. [SN file photo] Office of Program Planning and Budget director Catherine D. Saelua](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/catherine_saelua_6467cropped_7.jpg?itok=Abn-xcQn)