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Obama plans to seek an increase in aid for Colombia in the next budget.

Secretary General Kofi Annan, in a statement today taking note of the American and British airstrikes, appealed for an increase in aid for Afghan civilians.

Egypt had sought an additional $130 million this year after Congress approved a $200 million increase in aid for Israel to fight terrorism.

But he did agree to a vast increase in aid for Afghanistan, tied to a "diplomatic surge" that was never executed with the vigor of the military surge.

"The White House sandbagged their own Republican troops in Congress by pretending they had asked for a multibillion increase in aid for first responders," said Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, senior Democrat on the House spending panel.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan . 28(Reuters) — Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, met with President Hamid Karzai and other senior Afghan leaders on Sunday, days after the Bush administration announced that it was seeking an increase in aid for Afghanistan.

That tactic has enraged state legislators, who say they have given Yonkers record increases in aid for several years running.

The administration has signaled that it will not project any increase in the size of the surplus, but that it will show increases in aid for education and defense.

John Flanagan, the ranking Republican on the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, took to the Assembly floor on June 15 to deliver an angry rebuttal to Mr. Spencer's charges, telling the mayor to "stop complaining" and saying that Yonkers has received record increases in aid for several years.

The recent huge increase in aid funding for medicines for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria has been routed increasingly through nongovernmental organisations [ 12].

Some of the other major components of the plan include $87 billion for a temporary increase in aid to states for Medicaid costs; $79 billion in aid to local school districts and public colleges to prevent cutbacks; $90 billion in infrastructure spending, and $54 billion to encourage energy production from renewable sources.