US Budget Cut Including Embassy Protection

US government spending cuts include $129m a year for embassy protection

 

The automatic spending cuts called sequestration will start in January if Congress cannot find a compromise. Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

 

 

The US government will slash spending targeted for the protection of embassies around the world as part of a $100bn program of automatic spending cuts set to be start this January if Congress can not find a compromise.
The news comes after ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans died following attacks the US consulate and a safe house refuge in Benghazi on Tuesday night. US embassies across the Muslim world are now being targeted by protesters angered by a video that denigrated the prophet Muhammad.
According to a 400-page White House report released on Friday, automatic spending cuts to be made at the end of the year will include $129m a year earmarked for the next nine years to go to maintaining and protecting US embassies.

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