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Biden Requests More Funding to Counter Russia Sanctions Evasion

The Biden administration needs more funding to support its efforts to counter Russia-related export control and sanctions evasion, the White House said in a request to Congress for supplemental FY 2024 funding. The funding request, which asks for more resources…

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to support a range of “critical national security priorities,” calls for $100 million in additional funding for the State Department’s nonproliferation and anti-terrorism programs to support “export control, threat reduction, and countering weapons of mass destruction assistance that addresses Russia’s supply chains and sanctions evasion,” along with other national security initiatives. Another $210 million in additional funding for the State Department’s “diplomatic programs" would in part support “sustaining” sanctions and “export control efforts.”