Around US$575 million will be pumped into US Territories and Freely Associated States if the US$3.8 trillion federal budget proposed by US President Barrack Obama for the 2013 fiscal year gets the nod in the US. Around US$575 million will be pumped into US Territories and Freely Associated States if the US$3.8 trillion federal budget proposed by US President Barrack Obama for the 2013 fiscal year gets the nod in the US. This will be US$100 million more than the current allocation for these countries -- most of them in the Pacific -- -- in the 2012 fiscal year, which ends in September.
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