Authors: IHS

Publication Year: 2002

Last Updated: 2016-01-28

Journal: NCUIH

Keywords: budget, I/T/U, ITU, IHS, tribal, urban, budget formulation, funding, needs, white house, UIHP, face to face, meeting, NPAIHB

Abstract:

Tribal leaders requested a brief summary of budget issues for their meeting today, December 6, 2002, with White House and Department of Health and Human Services Staff based on the 13th Annual Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board analysis of the Indian Health Service Budget. The character of budget formulation is vastly different for tribes than it is for the beneficiaries of other programs funded by the federal government. Trust responsibility and the government-to-government relationship between tribes and the federal government, by definition, requires a partnership in the development of the budget. Tribes welcome the continued commitment to joint development of the IHS budget under the Administration of President George W. Bush. 

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