The FY 2017 Budget includes a range of efforts supporting implementation of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), including expanded funding for diversity programs, bolstering capacity and expertise on climate issues, and revamping the Department’s countering-violent-extremist communications through a new Center for Global Engagement.

The President’s highest priority is keeping the American people safe, and the State Department and USAID budget includes funding that is critical to the United States’ leadership role in the global coalition that will destroy ISIL.